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The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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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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I like the unreality of your mind the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.
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Well, we must wait for the future to show.
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I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.
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... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.
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If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.
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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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Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
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It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.
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Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.
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There'll be oceans of talk and emotions without end.
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But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.
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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.
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We are the words we are the music we are the thing itself.
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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on
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letters are venerable and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.
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To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.
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