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To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
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Style is a very simple matter it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
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Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
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It is the duty of the writer to describe.
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I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
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Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.
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The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss.
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By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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To communicate is our chief business society and friendship our chief delights and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
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Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?--startling, unexpected, unknown?
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
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Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?
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