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And you wish to be a poet and you wish to be a lover.
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 weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine My thoughts follow the exact same process.
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For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn.
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Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall
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I have made up thousands of stories I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget I'm never not thinking of you
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