If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of…

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I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and...

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and...

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of...

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and...

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and...

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought...

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought...

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling...

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of...

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of...

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am...

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am...

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's...

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's...

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be...

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be...

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more...

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more...

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true...

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true...