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The depths of the sea are only water after all.

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I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

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Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.

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Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

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

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Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.

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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

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

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But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes; also to some nervous fibre, or fanlike membrane in my species.

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But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.

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and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

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Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read.

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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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Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

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With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

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