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Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
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 feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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I will dream today for I must unscrew my head somehow.
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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
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With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.
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Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her did she resent it or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
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A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.
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What a lark! What a plunge!
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Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.
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scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.
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Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.
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He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain among scents, sounds voices, harsh, hollow, sweet and lights passing, and brooms tapping and the wash and hush of the sea.
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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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By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.
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We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
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