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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

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Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

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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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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.

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It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred.

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They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.

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There'll be oceans of talk and emotions without end.

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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

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What a comfort is friendship in this world.

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To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.

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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

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Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.

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He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.

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Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.

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There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.

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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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But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

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