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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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I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.
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As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.
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No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely.
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All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.
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Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.
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[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.
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But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.
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