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" This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. "
Virginia Woolf
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" Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. "
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" Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. "
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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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" For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. "
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" I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. "
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" There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. "
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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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" Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. "
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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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" Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. "
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" Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. "
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" Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. "
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" If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. "
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" I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. "
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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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" Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. "
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" On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. "
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" You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort. "
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" Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? "
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