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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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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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As a woman, I have no country
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.
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Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.
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I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.
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Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.
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