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Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

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Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

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What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.

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The great home of the soul is the open road.

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A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.

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The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

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And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

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It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.

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For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.

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Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

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Money is the seal and stamp of success.

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So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire.

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

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Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

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I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.

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There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.

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One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.

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