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"I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls. We all have, doubtless, but I like the suffering soul which confesses itself. I distrust this hard, this shiny, this enameled content."

Virginia Woolf

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"I am not here. I have no face. Other people have faces; They are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They say Yes, they say No; whereas I shift and change and am seen through in a second.They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and do what other people do when they have done it."

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf

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"By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream."

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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"She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day."

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

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"There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, ‘Consume me.’"

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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a letter I’ll never send (by marcinéma)

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

Virginia Woolf
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