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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.
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No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely.
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I am tied down with single words. But you wander off you slip away you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
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Life's bare as a bone.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!
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As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
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Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.
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The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them the night wrapped them nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness
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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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Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?
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It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred.
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One must love everything.
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