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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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After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.

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I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

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For if Chloe likes Olivia and Mary Carmichael knows how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber where nobody has yet been.

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A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

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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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For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

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We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.

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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?

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The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

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Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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One must love everything.

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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

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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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The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.

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If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion.

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She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.

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