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Author: Elizabeth von Arnim
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Elizabeth von Arnim _ Elizabeth and Her German
Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual is, and how far away from his neighbour; and while they talk {generally about babies, past, present, and to come}, I fall to wondering at the vast and impassable distance that separates one's own soul from the soul of the person sitting in the next chair.
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Elizabeth von Arnim _ Elizabeth and Her German
If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek of your relations...don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbours in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck.
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Elizabeth von Arnim _ Elizabeth and Her German
September 15th. - This is the month of quiet days, crimson creepers, and blackberries; of mellow afternoons in the ripening garden; of tea under acacias instead of too shady beeches; of wood fires in the library in chilly evenings.
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Elizabeth von Arnim _ Elizabeth and Her German
When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.
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Elizabeth von Arnim _ The Enchanted April
I'm sure it's wrong to go on being good for too long, till one gets miserable. And I can see you've been good for years and years, because you look so unhappy.
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Elizabeth von Arnim _ Elizabeth and Her German
The passion for being for ever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible. I can entertain myself quite well for weeks together, hardly aware, except for the pervading peace, that I have been alone at all.
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Elizabeth von Arnim _ Elizabeth and Her German
I love tulips better than any other spring flower; they are the embodiment of alert cheerfulness and tidy grace, and next to a hyacinth look like a wholesome, freshly tubbed young girl beside a stout lady whose every movement weighs down the air with patchouli. Their faint, delicate scent is refinement itself; and is there anything in the world more charming than the sprightly way they hold up their little faces to the sun. I have heard them called bold and flaunting, but to me they seem modest grace itself, only always on the alert to enjoy life as much as they can and not be afraid of looking the sun or anything else above them in the face.
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Elizabeth von Arnim _ Elizabeth and Her German
Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?
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Elizabeth von Arnim _ The Solitary Summer
Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.
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Elizabeth von Arnim _ The Solitary Summer
On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me.
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Elizabeth von Arnim _ The Enchanted April
How they had dreamed together, he and she... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while in the very heart of poetry.
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Elizabeth von Arnim _ The Enchanted April
... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.
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