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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

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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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In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

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literature is the record of our discontent.

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

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

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There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

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No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

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Words belong to each other.

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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

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For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

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I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement.

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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

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A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading.

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But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

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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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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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