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“It pleases me at this present moment, I may confess, that I seem to have found unawares an image that quite expresses what I mean — i.e., that I wrote as I read, with much the same sort of feeling. It seems to me that this is rather an original way of putting it (to disclose the privatest thought in my mind), and this gives me an absurd little sense of pleasure.”

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Margaret Oliphant, An Autobiography

“It pleases me at this present moment, I may confess, that I seem to have found unawares an image that quite expresses what I mean — i.e., that I wrote as I read, with much the same sort of feeling. It seems to me that this is rather an original way of putting it (to disclose the privatest thought in my mind), and this gives me an absurd little sense of pleasure.”

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