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There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.
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 must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.
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Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.
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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
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All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side.
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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 is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
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We insist, it seems, on living.
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One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.
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