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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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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
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So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again.
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Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Facts must be manipulated some must be brightened others shaded yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.
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There'll be oceans of talk and emotions without end.
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About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.
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Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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The way to write well is to live intensely.
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to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Use words that soak up life.
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Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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