“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,
Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.”
― An Essay On Criticism
Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.”
― An Essay On Criticism
“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Between the Acts
― Between the Acts
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