“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
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“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
“You have striven so hard, and so long, to compel life. Can't you now slowly change, and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.”
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“Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The tru...”
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“Love is. the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”
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“The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.”
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“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
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“Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?”
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“It is our business to go as we are impelled.”
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“The mind can assert anything, and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.”
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“What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.”
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“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.”
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“When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.”
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“I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.”
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“Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.”
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“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
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“Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?”
“It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much,...”
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“It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the time...”
“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.”
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