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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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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.
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But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason he could read, Dante for example, quite easily…he could add up his bill his brain was perfect it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel.
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The truer the facts the better the fiction.
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To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.
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Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.
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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
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Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.
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Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed a tear fell the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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At 46 one must be a miser only have time for essentials.
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The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.
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The eyes of others our prisons their thoughts our cages.
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