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" I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose. "
Virginia Woolf
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" Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? "
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" Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. "
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" Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. "
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" For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. "
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" Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. "
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" If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? "
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" Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. "
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" This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. "
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" It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality. "
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" There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. "
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" We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. "
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" Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. "
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" A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. "
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" Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. "
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Than
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" To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. "
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" For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? "
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" My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? "
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" You cannot find peace by avoiding life. "
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" Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. "
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" It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. "
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" It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. "
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" The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. "
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" Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. "
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" One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. "
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" Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied? "
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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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" Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. "
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" Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. "
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" Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. "
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" Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. "
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