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madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.

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... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.

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People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

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I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?

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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

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For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

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

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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

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The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

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But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.

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It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

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Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.

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The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

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If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.

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Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

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scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.

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