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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.

~Virginia Woolf

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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

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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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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

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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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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

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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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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: January 25th, 1882

Died: March 28th, 1941

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