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literature is the record of our discontent.

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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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I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

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It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.

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fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

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to teach without zest is a crime.

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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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It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.

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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.

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When she read just now to James, 'and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets,' and his eyes darkened, she thought, why should they grow up, and lose all that?

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Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

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But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

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Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

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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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It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

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A light here required a shadow there.

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If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to being hopeless, though: only the spectacle is a profoundly strange one; and as the current answers don’t do, one has to grope for a new one, and the process of discarding the old, when one is by no means certain what to put in their place, is a sad one.

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