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'"Look at life through this, look at life through that; let there be rose leaves, let there be vine leaves – I covered the whole street, Oxford Street, Piccadilly Circus, with the blaze and ripple of my mind, with vine leaves and rose leaves."'

'"Trembling with ardour, I pretended that I was not surprised."'

'"There are then warm hollows grooved in the heart of the uproar; alcoves of silence where we can shelter under the wing of beauty from truth which I desire."'

'"She dreads us, she despises us, yet comes cringing to our sides because for all our cruelty there is always some name, some face, which sheds a radiance, which lights up her pavements and makes it possible for her to replenish her dreams."'

'"Pools lie on the other side of the world reflecting marble columns. The swallow dips her wing in dark pools."'

'"Let me then create you. (You have done as much for me.)"'

'"(the rhythm is the main thing in writing)"'

'"Especially now, when I have left a room, and people talking, and the stone flags ring out with my solitary footsteps, and I behold the moon rising, sublimely, indifferently, over the ancient chapel – then it becomes clear that I am not one and simple, but complex and many."'

'"I will knock. I will enter."'

'"We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory."'