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To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.
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 to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.
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Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
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Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.
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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding and thought.
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Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
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I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.
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Style is a very simple matter it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
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What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page that's what I call hard work.
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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness dull, callous, and indifferent.
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