March 2010
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“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”
—G.K. Chesterton
“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn’t even feel it. And yet I believe you’ll be sensible of a little gap. But you’d clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this —But oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.”
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Vita Sackville-West in a letter to Virginia Woolf, January 21st 1926
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“If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can’t forget it—it will haunt you till it’s written.”
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“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
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“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of reward or punishment after you are dead.”
—Kurt Vonnegut
