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... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.
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What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page that's what I call hard work.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.
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Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.
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It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.
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loveliness is infernally sad.
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