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...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon that weight. Beautiful and bright it should be on the surface, feathery and evanescent, one colour melting into another like the colours on a butterfly's wing; but beneath the fabric must be clamped together with bolts of iron.

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We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

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They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say.

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Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

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How can I express the darkness?

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A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

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I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.

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I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

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Only longing can fill with more of itself.

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The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

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For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn.

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I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

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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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Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

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His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life.

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. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.

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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

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