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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

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The poet is always our contemporary.

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History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

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It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?

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

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Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.

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Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.

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You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

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She began framing the words of her telegram into a senseless singsong; so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favourable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace which she wore.

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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

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The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.

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Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down.

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Well, we must wait for the future to show.

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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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No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

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To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

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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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