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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

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An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old ...more

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I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.

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Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled

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Either life entails courage or it ceases to be life.

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I did not fear that I might tread upon a live rail and be killed. I feared something far more intangible-doing what was not contemplated by the Machin...more

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He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.

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-while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips and the wrong desires in his heart, and his arms full of air.

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I was yours once till death if you cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now--I can't hang about whining for ever--and he's mine in a way that shoc...more

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I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

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In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.

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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choos...more

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This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does...more