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What a lark! What a plunge!

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Oh, I am in love with life!

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

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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.

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Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.

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What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

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To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.

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No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

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

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Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.

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Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.

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No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

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A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one

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And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

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Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

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every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works, yet we require critics to explain the one and biographers to expound the other. That time hangs heavy on people's hands is the only explanation of the monstrous growth.

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The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

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She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not mind that) the safety and circumstance of married life, (she did not mind that) but life she heard going from her, and a lover.

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