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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

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A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

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We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life - hers is that of a country parson's daughter; but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that, as we say in real life, they have only to open the door to make themselves felt.

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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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what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.

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I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long - some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies so hideously apparent to me. Out of my suffering I will do it. I will knock. I will enter.

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It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.

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Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

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Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

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I am obsessed at nights with the idea of my own worthlessness, and if it were only to turn a light on to save my life I think I would not do it. These are the last footprints of a headache I suppose. Do you ever feel that? - like an old weed in a stream. What do you feel, lying in bed?

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So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.

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It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

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Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

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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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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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I see through most people; I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

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fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

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

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