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The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.
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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.
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