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If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

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Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

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...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

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Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

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How can I express the darkness?

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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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That complete statement which is literature.

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Life's bare as a bone.

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

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I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

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

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The way to write well is to live intensely.

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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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As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.

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Only longing can fill with more of itself.

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

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The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

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