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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

~Virginia Woolf

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

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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.

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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: January 25th, 1882

Died: March 28th, 1941

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