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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

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The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

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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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They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say.

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Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

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To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

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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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I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

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All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence.

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Life would split apart without letters.

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A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

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

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London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets... To walk alone through London is the greatest rest.

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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.

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In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance.

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Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.

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and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

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This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.

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