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"Clarissa had a theory in those days - they had heaps of theories, always theories, as young people have. It was to explain the feeling they had of dissatisfaction; not knowing people; not being known. For how could they know each other? You met every day; then not for six months, or years. It was unsatisfactory, they agreed, how little one knew people."
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"When you're there for others, you're ahead of everyone."
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"You are not what you think, but you are the reflection of what you think."
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"Truth is, I'm generally happiest when it's just me. It's okay to be madly in love with yourself."
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"Celebrate your life, you are your own light."
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"To be what you always wanted to be, step away from conformity."
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"The hardest thing to do in life is to be yourself."
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"Nothing can hold you back if your determination is strong enough."
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"But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples."
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"With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradicts everything you said today."
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"The world within you is of greater consequence than the world around you."
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"For she could never think of anything to say to Clarissa, though she liked her. She had lots of fine qualities; but they had nothing in common - she and Clarissa."
Relationship
"Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest."
Gender
"All the time she writing the world had continued."
Creativity
"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."
Self
"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."
Fact
"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."
Thought
"He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together."
Romance
"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."
Art
"I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street."
Friendship
"First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air."
Time
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