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“To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.”
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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
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“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
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“I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.”
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“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
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“Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.”
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“I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.”
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“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.”
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“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
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“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.”
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“Language is wine upon the lips”
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