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That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

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Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

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No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

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For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn.

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It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

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My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

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Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the waves came the voices of birds singing.

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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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

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For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.

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One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

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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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First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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We insist, it seems, on living.

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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

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Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.

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Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

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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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