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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

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In masturbation there is nothing but loss.

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America exhausts the springs of one's soul - I suppose that's what it exists for. It lives to see all real spontaneity expire. But anyhow it doesn't grind on an old nerve as Europe seems to.

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The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.

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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.

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No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

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But having more freedom she only became more profoundly aware of the big want. She wanted so many things. She wanted to read great, beautiful books, and be rich with them; she wanted to see beautiful things, and have the joy of them for ever; she wanted to know big, free people; and there remained always the want she could put no name to? It was so difficult. There were so many things, so much to meet and surpass. And one never knew where one was going.

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That she bear children is not a woman's significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.

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Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep; And disgustingly upside down. Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags And grinning in their sleep. Bats!

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The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.

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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

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There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.

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A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches Where light pushes through; A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air. A dip to the water.

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I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her. Love means the pre-cognitive flow...it is the honest state before the apple.

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We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

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Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

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Love's a dog in a manger.

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Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

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And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

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