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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

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What a lark! What a plunge!

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Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

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The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

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With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.

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Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.

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It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

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Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

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Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

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But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

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All artists need a room of their own

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When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre

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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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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

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Love had a thousand shapes.

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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

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. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

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You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

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

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