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History is too much about wars biography too much about great men.
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 am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.
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Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.
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At 46 one must be a miser only have time for essentials.
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Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and ivory, of dolphins and the juice of July flowers, of the milk of unicorns and panthers’ breath, of ropes of pearl, brains of peacocks and Cretan wine.
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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
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It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things trees, streams, flowers felt they expressed one felt they became one felt they knew one, in a sense were one felt an irrational tenderness thus (she looked at that long steady light) as for oneself.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
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And you wish to be a poet and you wish to be a lover.
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Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.
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It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.
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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
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When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.
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We are the words we are the music we are the thing itself.
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Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.
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If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.
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