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- She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave…
- ...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely…
- There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the…
- Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that…
- Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself? Because he loved…
- 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…
- Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a…
- If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon…
- Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of…
- 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…
- Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so…
- My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom…
- The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a…
- Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths,…
- The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People…
- I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for…
- But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.
- I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
- 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…
- I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden…
- At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the…
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