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But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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Theories then are dangerous things.
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We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.
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Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.
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Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
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Life stand still here.
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For if Chloe likes Olivia and Mary Carmichael knows how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber where nobody has yet been.
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
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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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My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.
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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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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
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Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.
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The truer the facts the better the fiction.
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It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.
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Wat a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever.
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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.
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I press to my centre, and find there is something there.
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