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• The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
• I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark
• ...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you would have…
• Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall…
• But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat…
• I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house…
• It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all…
• Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took…
• To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after…
• I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.
• It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.
• The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

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