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"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."
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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
"I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson."
"It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted."
"Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us go. But unworthiness stimulates woman. It brings out her deeper nature, for good or for evil."
"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
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