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Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.
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Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
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As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship you. The light of truth beats upon us without shadow, and the light of truth is damnably unbecoming to us both.
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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
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Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.
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Words belong to each other.
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Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.
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I have made up thousands of stories I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?
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I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.
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There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.
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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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