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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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 got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.
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So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.
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Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.
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The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.
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There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.
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