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  1. Virginia Woolf _ The Common Reader

    Do not dictate to your author; try to become him. Be his fellow-worker and accomplice.
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  2. Virginia Woolf _ The Common Reader

    One does not love a place the less because one has suffered in it.
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  3. Virginia Woolf _ The Common Reader

    The journey is everything. Most necessary of all, but rarest good fortune, we should try to find some man of our own sort who will go with us and to whom we can say the first thing that comes into our heads. For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.
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  4. Virginia Woolf _ The Common Reader

    To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.
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  5. Virginia Woolf _ The Common Reader

    There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.
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  6. Virginia Woolf _ The Common Reader

    We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.
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  7. Virginia Woolf _ The Common Reader

    For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
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  8. Virginia Woolf _ The Common Reader

    It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.
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  9. Virginia Woolf _ The Common Reader

    Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions ― a walk, a talk, solitude in one's own orchard ― can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger's-breadth from goodness.
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  10. Virginia Woolf _ The Common Reader

    There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
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  11. Virginia Woolf _ The Common Reader

    For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.
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  12. Virginia Woolf _ The Common Reader

    Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
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