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4391 Novelist Quotes

Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.
Dilated Atmosphere Luxury Climate
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Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

Failure Useful Success
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It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

Happiness Missed Lived-on
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Life Real Counselor Wisdom
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Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Little Addicted Moments Welcome
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We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?
Hurt Wanted
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They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars

Gloom Spruces Empty-world Glimmering
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..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

Husband Wife Breakable Prosperity
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

Cannot Discuss Others Product
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

Solely Gods Cultures Power
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I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

Consider Progress Learn Many
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

Alone Challenges Change Computer
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

Car Get Goes Lot
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She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

About Deeply Feminine Sacred
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Fantasy Fantasy World Find Great
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

About Flowers Joy Mad
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Being Being Busy Busy Consciousness
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Difficult Love Love Is Oneself
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Amazed Commit Getting Getting Married
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Enlightening Eyes Falling Love
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We can only learn to love by loving.
Learn Love Loving Only
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
Cry Down Equality Everyone
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
Come Evil Letting Lies
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Being End Good In The End
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Anything Art Cunning Face
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Better Confused Indifference Misguided
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

Change Falling Falling In Love Go
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Affairs Human Human Affairs Serious
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

Abolish Catastrophe Comfort Equivalent
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Comfort Relationship Substitute Supplied
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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Art Particular Sort Struggle
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

Being Everyone I Think Important
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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
Anything Being Holy Made
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Between Doing Many Out
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Continuous Distant Hear Other
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Every Every Man Man Man Needs
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Charming Chiefly Falling Forgetting
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Moving Pace Philosophy Snail
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Certain Could Disciplined Emotions
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Better Doomed Future How
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Conceited Digest Eating Empty
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Base Calls Entirely Even
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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Brown Generic Like Moral
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Absolute Another Body Human
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

Anywhere Get Marriage Public
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Almost Always Becomes Demands
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

About Am Hate I Am
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

Afford Basically Books Britain
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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

Almost Any Been Book
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