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How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
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Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.
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Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame
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All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.
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It is useless to read Greek in translation translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
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madam, the man cried, leaping to the ground, you're hurt! I'm dead, sir! she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.
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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.
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Life stand still here.
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If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.
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You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.
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Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.
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You have been in every way all that anyone could be.... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.
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Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.
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For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
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Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
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