British - Author | January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia Woolf
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
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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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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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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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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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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
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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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