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

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

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I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Virginia Woolf in The Waves (1931)
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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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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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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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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

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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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The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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