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Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf

No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don’t like work – no man does – but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.

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Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

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Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf

Sometimes, one trembling star comes in the clear sky and makes me think the world beautiful and we maggots deforming even the trees with our lusts.

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Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard

Live freshly every moment by seeing that mere thoughts about a past experience do not create a present reality.

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Victor Hugo

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash.

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Upton Sinclair, fully Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.

A wonderful privilege it was to be thus admitted into the soul of a man of genius, to be allowed to share the ecstasies and the agonies of his inmost life.

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William Shakespeare

As by your high imperial majesty I had in charge at my depart for France, as procurator to your excellence, to marry Princess Margaret for your grace, so, in the famous ancient city Tours, in presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, the Dukes of Orleans, Calabar, Bretagne, and Alencon, seven earls, twelve barons, and twenty reverend bishops, I have performed my mask and was espoused. Henry VI, Act I, Scene 1

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William Shakespeare

But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into't as to a lover's bed. Antony and Cleopatra, Act iv, Scene 14

Extreme | Land | Rage |

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William Shakespeare

O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful in the contempt and anger of his lip! Olivia, scene i

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William Shakespeare

Oppressâ€™d with two weak evils, age and hunger.

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William Shakespeare

Shine comforts from the east, That I may back to Athens by daylight From these that my poor company detest; And sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.

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William Shakespeare

Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

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William Shakespeare

Since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes--I will be brief.

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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

English is his third language and some of us were thinking about getting up a fund and sending him back to Berlitz for the remainder of the English language course.

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Euripedes NULL

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

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