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- I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices…
- It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.
- A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life
- It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to…
- At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show…
- London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the…
- Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that…
- Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an…
- You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that…
- I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
- It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike…
- Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the…
- Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most…
- Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.
- I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
- for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men,…
- They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.
- How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?
- In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them…
- All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far…
- Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand…
- It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths…
- All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general…
- Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been…
- I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing…
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