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Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882.
* She was a writer, essayist, and publisher.
* She is considered one of the most important modernist writers of the 20th century.
* Her most famous works include Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando.
* She suffered from mental illness throughout her life.
* She died by suicide in 1941.
* Her work continues to be read and studied today.
* She is considered a pioneer of stream-of-consciousness writing.
* She is one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Virginia Woolf

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

Virginia Woolf

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves.

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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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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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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

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I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

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So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

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