"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
-Virginia Woolf
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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.“
-Virginia Woolf
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