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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

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Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the

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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

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The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

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Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

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