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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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I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

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Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

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[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

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I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

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Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

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... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.

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It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

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...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago; where one moved about without haste or anxiety, for there was no future to worry about. She knew what had happened to them, what to her. It was like reading a good book again, for she knew the end of that story, since it had happened twenty years ago, and life, which shot down even from this dining-room table in cascades, heaven knows where, was sealed up there, and lay, like a lake, placidly between its banks.

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At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

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There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.

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I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?

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Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.

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It is no use trying to sum people up.

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The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

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There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

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Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

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Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that

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