"It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy."
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"old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections."
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"Would there be trees if we didn't see them?"
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"Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever."
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"Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now."
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"I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person."
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"Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness."
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"Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever."
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"scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed."
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"... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony."
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"Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word that he writes ... He is without doubt the prince of his profession."
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"There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay."
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"Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady."
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"Life's bare as a bone."
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"If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties."
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"What a comfort is friendship in this world."
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"What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the seeds of death; at the same time these lovers, these people entering into illusion glittering eyed, must be danced round with mockery, decorated with garlands."
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"Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living."
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"For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light."
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"Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s."
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