"The truer the facts the better the fiction."
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"And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one."
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"She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!"
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"But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age."
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"Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play."
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"Well, we must wait for the future to show."
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"Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world."
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"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."
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"With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life."
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"To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries."
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"For pleasure has no relish unless we share it."
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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
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"Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading."
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"Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth."
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"Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read."
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"For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together"
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"I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely."
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"I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?"
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"For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver."
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"I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older."
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