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Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.
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You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.
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I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long - some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies so hideously apparent to me. Out of my suffering I will do it. I will knock. I will enter.
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To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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Only longing can fill with more of itself.
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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
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What a comfort is friendship in this world.
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But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.
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Women alone stir my imagination.
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I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married
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Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?
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To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.
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Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
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I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.
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