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“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando