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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

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They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.

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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

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I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

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To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and destroy more surely then lust or gunpowder. The poet's, then, is the highest office of all. His words reach where others fall short. A silly song of Shakespeare's has done more for the poor and the wicked than all the preachers and philanthropists in the world.

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The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

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Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

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

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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them.

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People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

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But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.

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It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

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I am rooted, but I flow.

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Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

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