But with Peter everything had to be shared; everything gone into.
("Mrs. Dalloway")
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Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?--startling, unexpected, unknown?Virginia Woolf
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
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It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
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