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Vitruvius, fully Marcus Vitruvius Pollio NULL
Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
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Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
Look here Vita — throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads — They won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river. Think of that. Throw over your man, I say, and come.
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Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
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Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
The clock ticks. The two hands are convoys marching through a desert. The black bars on the clock face are green oases. The long hand has marched ahead to find water. The other, painfully stumbles among hot stones in the desert. It will die in the desert.
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