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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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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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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.…
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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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To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour,…
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable…
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And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.…
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It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.
— Sun Tzu
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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere…
— Louise Bogan
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In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem to be…
— Unknown Author
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
— E. M. Forster
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