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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

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The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.

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After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

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Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

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... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?

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He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

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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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Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine people out of ten they would say they wanted nothing but this--love; while the women, judging from her own experience, would all the time be feeling, This is not what we want; there is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than this; yet it is also beautiful and necessary.

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But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.

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As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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What a lark! What a plunge!

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We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.

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Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

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The world is crammed with delightful things

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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

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letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.

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A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

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But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves a shape distinct from others, is broken, and there is left of all these wrinkles and roughnesses a central oyster of perceptiveness, an enormous eye. How beautiful a street is in winter!

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