If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? … - Virginia Woolf

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Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Virginia Woolf

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

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Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

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I am rooted, but I flow.

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Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.

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