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- Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by…
- That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under…
- For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is…
- Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just…
- and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms, of…
- But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.
- 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…
- She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was…
- Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness.…
- 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…
- One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting…
- The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living…
- And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath…
- Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast…
- Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every…
- 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…
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