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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
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And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.
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But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.
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... pure honesty is a doubtful quality it means often lack of imagination.
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We are the words we are the music we are the thing itself.
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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fishing teaches a stern morality inculcates a remorseless honesty.
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It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.
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Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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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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No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.
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