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The nights now are full of wind and destruction; the trees plunge and bend and their leaves fly helter skelter until the lawn is plastered with them a...more

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(...) Sir Boris had fought and killed the Paynim; Sir Gawain, the Turk; Sir Miles, the Pole; Sir Andrew, the Frank; Sir Richard, the Austrian; Sir Jor...more

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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotio...more

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As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of the stranges...more

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The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

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Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here, I in my satin; he in black and white?

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That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlar...more

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Shakespeare is getting flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him, as they put his monument at Stratford beyond the reach of ...more

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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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Flinging himself from his horse, he made, in his rage, as if he would breast the flood. Standing knee-deep in water he hurled at the faithless woman a...more

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A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

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Does it explain my astonishment the other day when Z, most humane, most modest of men, taking up some book by Rebecca West and reading a passage in it...more

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For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

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The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it is obvious that the values of women d...more