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Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.
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[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
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There'll be oceans of talk and emotions without end.
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There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.
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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them.
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Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.
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I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.
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Would there be trees if we didn't see them?
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I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.
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If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
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I see through most people I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.
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The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often, alas, acts the cannibal among the other faculties so that often, where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
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Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves but to make people think this or that perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.
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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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I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.
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Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.
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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
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But how entirely I live in my imagination how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.
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Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.
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