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Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends could only read the title.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.
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How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.
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For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.
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The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.
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She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life.
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In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called where they lived and whether they were beggars or people of substance.
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With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.
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And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.
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To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?
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Theories then are dangerous things.
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Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.
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Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?
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As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.
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