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literature is the record of our discontent.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.
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Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.
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I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.
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I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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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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I grow numb I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?
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If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?
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The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
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The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.
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I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.
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How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?
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I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
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Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's or she purred.
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