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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
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But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
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Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
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One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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War is not women's history.
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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
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What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the seeds of death at the same time these lovers, these people entering into illusion glittering eyed, must be danced round with mockery, decorated with garlands.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists the reality of everything.
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But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.
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When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.
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And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.
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The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine My thoughts follow the exact same process.
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I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.
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The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?
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The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.
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How much better is silence the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.
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To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
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The truer the facts the better the fiction.
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