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To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.
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For if Chloe likes Olivia and Mary Carmichael knows how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber where nobody has yet been.
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Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.
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O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!
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A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.
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Women alone stir my imagination.
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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
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To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?
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