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For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

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The world is crammed with delightful things

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Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.

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But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

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Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.

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To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.

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Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.

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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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As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

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We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life - hers is that of a country parson's daughter; but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that, as we say in real life, they have only to open the door to make themselves felt.

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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

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it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams

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It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.

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The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

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Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

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The artist after all is a solitary being.

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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

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Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?

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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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