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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.
An unshared happiness is not happiness.
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.