“For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
“One must strain off what was personal and accidental in all these impressions and so reach the pure fluid, the essential oil of truth.”
“Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.”
“Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends on intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time.”
