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" Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? "

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" Arrange whatever pieces come your way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. "

" 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. "

" Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. "

" 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. "

" For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. "

" These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. "

" 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. "

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

" Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. "

" The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. "

" This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. "

" The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. "

" Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. "

" It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. "

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" Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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