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- The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the…
- Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom…
- We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that…
- Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him,…
- To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it…
- So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes?…
- some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all the forms of…
- It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust…
- There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a…
- He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds;…
- Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but…
- Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They…
- Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the…
- Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though…
- After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it…
- Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out…
- Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know…
- 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…
- We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of…
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