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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

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There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

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

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Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

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My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.

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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them.

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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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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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

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But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

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She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.

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Oh, I am in love with life!

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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

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One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

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Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

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Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

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The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

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It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.

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