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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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When she read just now to James, 'and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets,' and his eyes darkened, she thought, why should they grow up, and lose all that?
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No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes
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