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It is the duty of the writer to describe.
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 some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.
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But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.
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I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.
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