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Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

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So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.

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A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

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war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and tamed the natural savagery of the tongue. For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

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I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.

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letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.

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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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How remorseless life is!

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By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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Theories then are dangerous things.

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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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Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand, I carried a message. I came to the puddle. I could not cross it. Identity failed me. We are nothing, I said, and fell. I was blown like a feather. I was wafted down tunnels. Then very gingerly, I pushed my foot across. I laid my hand against a brick wall. I returned very painfully, drawing myself back into my body over the grey, cadaverous space of the puddle. This is life then to which I am committed.

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It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.

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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

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It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became one; felt they knew one, in a sense were one; felt an irrational tenderness thus (she looked at that long steady light) as for oneself.

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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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