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I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

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now that one was mature then, said Peter, one could watch, one could understand, and one did not lose the power of feeling, he said. No, that is true,...more

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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

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It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

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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. Tears and sorrows; courage and endurance; a perfectl...more

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This idea struck me: the army is the body : I am the brain. Thinking is my fighting. (15 May 1940)

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I use my friends rather as giglamps : There's another field I see: by your light. Over there's a hill. I widen my landscape.

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The immense success of our life, is I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.

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When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better--her husband; ...more