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I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

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There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

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To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

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Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry - but how to speak to a man who does not see you? who sees ogres, satyrs, perhaps the depth of the sea instead?

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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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For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, "This is what I have made of it! This!" And what had she made of it? What, indeed?

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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

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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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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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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

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Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

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I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

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