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Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

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All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.

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I have had my vision.

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One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

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My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.

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The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

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... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

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For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.

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The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

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There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

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Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

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Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

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O how blessed it would be never to marry, or grow old; but to spend one's life innocently and indifferently among the trees and rivers which alone can keep one cool and childlike in the midst of the troubles of the world!

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This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.

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Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

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Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.

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So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

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I see through most people; I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.

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There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?

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Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.

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