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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

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It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: January 25th, 1882

Died: March 28th, 1941

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