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"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations."

"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem."

"Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems."

"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."

"Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile."
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"You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,And how, how rare and strange it is, to findIn a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends,(For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!)To find a friend who has these qualities,Who has, and givesThose qualities upon which friendship lives.How much it means that I say this to you-Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!"

"A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give."

"Everyone's alone-or so it seems to me.They make noises, and think they are talking to each other;They make faces, and think they understand each other,And I'm sure they don't. Is that delusion?Can we only loveSomething created in our own imaginations?"

"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

"Should I after tea and cakes and ices have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?"
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