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Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.
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But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.
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Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.
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For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.
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A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
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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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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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We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.
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I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.
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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
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Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
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A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one
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There'll be oceans of talk and emotions without end.
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He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.
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The compensation of growing old ... was simply this that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.
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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
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