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The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

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to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

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To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

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Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

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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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Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.

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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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literature is the record of our discontent.

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She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not mind that) the safety and circumstance of married life, (she did not mind that) but life she heard going from her, and a lover.

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The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

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Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

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As a woman, I have no country

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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

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

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I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.

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It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.

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what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.

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So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again.

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