Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.
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For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
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I know this, and the knowledge eats me like an inward animal there is nothing worse for a woman than to be deprived of her womanliness.
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You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing.
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A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.
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