Here are my favorite quotes, particularly the first one (I rather identify with it; it nicely explains why I find it so jarring when I find out someone has been observing me or people have been talking about me).
A girl is more lonely than a boy. No one cares in the least what she does. Nothing’s expected of her. Unless one’s very pretty people don’t listen to what you say . . And that’s what I like. . . I like walking in Richmond Park and singing to myself and knowing it doesn’t matter a damn to anybody. . . I like the freedom of it – it’s like being the wind or the sea.
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In her curious condition of unanalyzed sensations she was incapable of making a plan which should have an effect upon her state of mind. She abandoned herself to the mercy of accidents. . . Any woman experienced in the progress of courtship would have come by certain opinions from all this which would have given her at least a theory to go upon; but no one had ever been in love with Rachel, and she had never been in love with anyone. Moreover, none of the books she had read. . . suggested from their analysis of love that what their heroines felt was what she was feeling now. It seemed to her that her sensations had no name.
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I worship you, but I loathe marriage, I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise, and the thought of you interfering in my work, hindering me
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