Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

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That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

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There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

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If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

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The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

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Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

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