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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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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.
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Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.
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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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