• Nature

  As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

  3.4 · 6 votes · 12 reads

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• Time

  At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

  4.2 · 55 votes · 197 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

  3.3 · 50 votes · 136 reads

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• Art and Culture

  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.

  4.6 · 28 votes · 141 reads

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• Feelings

  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

  3.6 · 5 votes · 92 reads

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• Society

  For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and

  3.3 · 28 votes · 177 reads

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• Science and Technology

  For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

  3.8 · 33 votes · 21 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that

  5.0 · 49 votes · 18 reads

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• Various

  I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

  4.5 · 18 votes · 41 reads

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• Art and Culture

  I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

  4.6 · 6 votes · 30 reads

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• Art and Culture

  If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

  3.8 · 38 votes · 176 reads

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• Government and Politics

  If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not s

  4.4 · 56 votes · 136 reads

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• Nature

  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.

  3.8 · 50 votes · 150 reads

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• Nature

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

  4.1 · 9 votes · 46 reads

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• Art and Culture

  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.

  3.9 · 45 votes · 185 reads

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• Feelings

  Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

  3.2 · 52 votes · 79 reads

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• Nature

  Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

  4.1 · 41 votes · 167 reads

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• Virtues

  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.

  4.1 · 40 votes · 145 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

  4.1 · 63 votes · 101 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

  4.0 · 56 votes · 168 reads

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• Art and Culture

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

  3.4 · 49 votes · 185 reads

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• Time

  Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

  4.9 · 60 votes · 76 reads

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• Feelings

  On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

  4.3 · 27 votes · 137 reads

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• Defects

  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.

  4.7 · 28 votes · 198 reads

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• Nature

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

  4.3 · 49 votes · 117 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -and one always secretes too much jelly.

  5.0 · 23 votes · 2 reads

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• Time

  One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

  4.6 · 9 votes · 3 reads

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• Nature

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

  3.7 · 25 votes · 97 reads

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• Various

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

  3.3 · 23 votes · 76 reads

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• Virtues

  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

  3.6 · 39 votes · 121 reads

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• Feelings

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

  3.7 · 26 votes · 153 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

  4.3 · 39 votes · 162 reads

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• Time

  That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

  3.2 · 62 votes · 16 reads

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• Art and Culture

  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.

  3.9 · 55 votes · 182 reads

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• Society

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

  4.8 · 31 votes · 37 reads

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• Nature

  The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

  3.1 · 6 votes · 63 reads

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• Time

  The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

  5.0 · 28 votes · 65 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

  5.0 · 36 votes · 135 reads

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• Nature

  The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

  4.5 · 46 votes · 198 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

  4.2 · 18 votes · 10 reads

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