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The Odyssey

by Homer

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“Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

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“What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

tags: altruism, inspirational, selflessness, woman

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“She held in her hands for one brief moment the globe which we spend our lives in trying to shape, round, whole, and entire from the confusion of chaos.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

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“I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

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“Life for most people compels the exercise of the lower gifts and wastes the precious ones, until it forces us to agree that there is little virtue, as well as little profit, in what once seemed to us the noblest part of our inheritance.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

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