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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is…
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...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the…
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London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my…
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and…
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends…
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I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
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