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- [She was singing] a senseless singsong, so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favorable opinion of…
- It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite…
- So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours,…
- 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…
- So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours,…
- 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…
- Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.
- And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
- If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to…
- 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 cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of…
- 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…
- For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
- One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.
- Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her…
- Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.
- I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note,…
- In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in…
- Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but…
- 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,…
- 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 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
- But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now…
- Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the…
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