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What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

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Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

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We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.

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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

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Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone.

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Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.

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Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.

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History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

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You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.

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I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

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I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

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Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought—making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share—it smashed to atoms.

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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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There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

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The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

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[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

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