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When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

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Rebecca West

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

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Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

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There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

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In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

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It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

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Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.

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