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"Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping."
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Virginia WoolfLock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no — Virginia Woolf
"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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Virginia Woolf
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Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.
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"Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."
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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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"The chief charges against her were (1) that she was dead, and therefore could not hold any property; (2) that she was a woman which amounts to much the same thing ..."
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"Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs Ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscription on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge, she had thought, leaning her head on Mrs Ramsays knee."
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