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The eyes of others our prisons their thoughts our cages.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.
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First a warning, musical then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
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The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.
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Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.
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It is the duty of the writer to describe.
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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
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The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.
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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.
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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.
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But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.
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It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
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Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.
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Whenever you see a board up with Trespassers will be prosecuted, trespass at once.
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.
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When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
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