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He was a thorough good sort a bit limited a bit thick in the head yes but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.
Virginia Woolf
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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
Virginia Woolf
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The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.
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For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
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My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.
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Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.
Virginia Woolf
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There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?
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The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.
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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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Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
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Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?--startling, unexpected, unknown?
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I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.
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I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married
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A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one
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Would there be trees if we didn't see them?
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"Submit to me."" So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought were free like smoke, were free to come and go like ghosts. They have no suffering there, she thought."
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Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.
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It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?
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How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?
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Lock up your libraries if you like but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.
Virginia Woolf
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