Woolf

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    One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking?—the entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world—a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the writer is communicating his experience with perfect fullness.
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)