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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

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After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea.

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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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Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

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Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

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I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

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She began framing the words of her telegram into a senseless singsong; so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favourable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace which she wore.

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Soup is cuisines kindest course

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They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.

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Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

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I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

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I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.

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Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

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

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The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness

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