

“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

“If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there”
― Alice in Wonderland
― Alice in Wonderland

“My God died young. Theolatry i found
Degrading, and its premises, unsound.
No free man needs God; but was I free?”
― Pale Fire
Degrading, and its premises, unsound.
No free man needs God; but was I free?”
― Pale Fire

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment

“However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”
― Dead Souls
― Dead Souls
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