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“They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
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“....I am not going to stir those old pools; I take only what chance has floated to my feet—that was far more vigorous and far more vocal a century ago.”
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“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
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