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" Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. "
Virginia Woolf
Really
Until
Been
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" We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. "
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" Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. "
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" As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. "
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" The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. "
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" If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share. "
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" The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. "
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" It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. "
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" Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? "
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" One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. "
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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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" It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. "
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Look
" This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. "
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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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" You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort. "
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" We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. "
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" Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. "
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" Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. "
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" The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. "
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