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You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?

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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.

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Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.

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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

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That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.

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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

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Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.

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How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

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They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

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We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

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I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

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You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

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Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.

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I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.

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The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

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A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes to corner myself. I like a man about, if he's only something to snap at.

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I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

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She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood there fair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something of him, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed her eyes.

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It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.

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