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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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 was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
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About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.
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Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.
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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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Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.
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But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.
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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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Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.
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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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letters are venerable and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.
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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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You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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The poet is always our contemporary.
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The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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