She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ... by Virginia Woolf

• Virginia Woolf | British

  
  
  Profession: Novelist and Essayist
  Born: January 25, 1882
  Died: March 28, 1941
  Virginia Woolf was a pioneering modernist writer, celebrated for works like Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, and her reflections on feminism and the human psyche.
  Virginia Woolf was a modernist writer whose works, like Mrs. Dalloway, explore the complexity of human consciousness.
  
  

  She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...

  Virginia Woolf

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The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.

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Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another.

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I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me.

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I have had my vision.

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To love makes one solitary.

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Life stand still here.

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Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences.

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MELODYLong chorus,pierce the night.Noon for crickets.

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And her old Uncle William used to say a lady is known byher shoes and her gloves.

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Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

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Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

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Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.

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I am rooted, but I flow.

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I have felt that odd whirr of wings in the head.

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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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I am extremely happy walking on the downs...I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

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I am not one and simple, but complex and many.

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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

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He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.

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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.

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