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Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

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It is no use trying to sum people up.

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Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

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Women alone stir my imagination.

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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

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But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.

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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

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I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

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old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.

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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

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There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.

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Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.

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Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.

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The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.

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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

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But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.

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But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

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Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine people out of ten they would say they wanted nothing but this--love; while the women, judging from her own experience, would all the time be feeling, This is not what we want; there is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than this; yet it is also beautiful and necessary.

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