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It is no use trying to sum people up.

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It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship you. The light of truth beats upon us without shadow, and the light of truth is damnably unbecoming to us both.

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for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge

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There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

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Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.

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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

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... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

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

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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

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She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them. Isolated on a green island, hedged about with snowdrops, laid with a counterpane of puckered silk, the innocent island floated under her window. Only George lagged behind.

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Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

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It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

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Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

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Only longing can fill with more of itself.

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But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.

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I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

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