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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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I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.
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It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred.
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To be silent to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.
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They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
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It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?
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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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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
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If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
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The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
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Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.
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After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.
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Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.
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