I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

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The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

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Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

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If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time."

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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

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Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

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The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

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I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

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