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"My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people - the me imprisoned in yesterday and the me out here on the mound; and now there is a third me trying to get in - the me in what is going to happen next."
"I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life."
"The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon."
"It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts."
"Wakings are the worst times--almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on my heart."
"The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love."
"There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love."
"And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes."
"Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency."
"Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!"
"... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long."
"I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England."
"And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'-- it might have been the most magnificent drink in the world; which, personally, I think it is."
"Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance."
"Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return -- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth."
"I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt."
"We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian."
"I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?"
"I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame."
"Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England."