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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Facts must be manipulated some must be brightened others shaded yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.
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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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