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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves a shape distinct from others, is broken, and there is left of all these wrinkles and roughnesses a central oyster of perceptiveness, an enormous eye. How beautiful a street is in winter!
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.
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Often on a wet day I begin counting up what I've read what I haven't read.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.
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To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
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It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.
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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
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Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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