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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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Still, life had a way of adding day to day
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Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.
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I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.
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Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.
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I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.
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We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.
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The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.
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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man. Virginia Woolf