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- I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the…
- After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it…
- I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for…
- Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in…
- Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer,…
- The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds…
- So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if…
- She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming…
- To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition…
- Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do…
- Wat a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed…
- They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been…
- To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to…
- Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than…
- Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I…
- I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
- We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough.…
- Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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