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I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

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I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

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I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

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

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Life's bare as a bone.

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We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life - hers is that of a country parson's daughter; but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that, as we say in real life, they have only to open the door to make themselves felt.

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Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

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Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange.

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Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

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So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again.

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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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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

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I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement.

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The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.

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War is not women's history.

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I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

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