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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.
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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
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Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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