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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

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Marvelous are the innocent.

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But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

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What a lark! What a plunge!

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There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.

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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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I press to my centre, and find there is something there.

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I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.

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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

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All extremes are dangerous.

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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

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So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.

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The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

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No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

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Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

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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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To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

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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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The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.

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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

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