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" A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. "
Us
Quality
Essay
" Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. "
More
Facts
Fact
" 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. "
Back
Only
Masterpiece
" Arrange whatever pieces come your way. "
Way
Your
Pieces
" As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. "
Whole
Woman
World
" A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. "
Own
Write
Money
" Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. "
Boredom
Legitimate
Kingdom
" Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. "
Friends
Like
Past
" Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. "
Life
Experience
Soul
" 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. "
Still
Spider
Like
" For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. "
Anonymous
History
Most
" 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? "
Time
Year
Body
" Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do. "
Responsible
People
Never
" Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. "
Humor
First
Gifts
" I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. "
Past
Time
Present
" If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? "
Why
Men
Pleasure
" 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? "
Daughter
Man
Fight
" If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. "
You
Tell
Truth
" 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 where I have not shared and probably will not share. "
You
Country
Fighting
" Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. "
Venture
Woman
Without
" I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. "
Last
Job
God
" I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. "
Locked
Worse
Thought
" It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. "
Image
Curious
Original
" It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. "
Harder
Than
Far
" It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality. "
Than
Difficult
Far
" It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. "
Simple
Woman
Must
" It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. "
Dreams
Our
Sometimes
" 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. "
Artist
Him
Men
" It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. "
Work
Genius
Hard
" It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. "
Age
Way
Look
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