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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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I am extremely happy walking on the downs...I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so t...more

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I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

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The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no accou...more

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No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.

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By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

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Thinking was torment; why not give up thinking, and drift and dream? But the misery of the world, she thought, forces me to think. Or was that a pose?...more

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Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered in mist, knows that he must l...more