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However, the majority of women are neither harlots nor courtesans; nor do they sit clasping pug dogs to dusty velvet all through the summer afternoon....more

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My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which...more

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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

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Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.

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...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

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I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This...more

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She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...

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anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

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If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory.

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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

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She sighed, she snored, not that she was asleep, only drowsy and heavy, drowsy and heavy, like a field of clover in the sunshine this hot July day, wi...more

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Fear no more," said Clarissa. Fear no more the heat o' the sun; for the shock of Lady Bruton asking Richard to lunch without her made the moment in wh...more

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Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences.

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Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

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This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.