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The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
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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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I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices
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History is too much about wars biography too much about great men.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
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Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.
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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 write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.
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