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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: January 25th, 1882

Died: March 28th, 1941

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