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

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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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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

By Virginia Woolf
Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

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

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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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

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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

By Virginia Woolf