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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

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In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.

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She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

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With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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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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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.

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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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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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Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

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You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?

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The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.

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Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual coming of death. As people describe love. To note every symptom of failure: but why failure? To treat age as an experience that is different from the others; and to detect every one of the gradual stages towards death which is a tremendous experience, an not as unconscious, at least in its approaches, as death is.

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Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

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But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

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Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

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Life would split apart without letters.

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I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

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Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?

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