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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Elizabeth von Arnim _ Elizabeth and Her German

    Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?
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