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The way to write well is to live intensely.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
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Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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