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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
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“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
Moments of Reading: A Virginia Woolf Reading Group
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This group has been created to discuss the works of Virginia Woolf in its broadest sense. It helps new readers in finding their way in her works, it e ...more
The Virginia Woolf Reading Group
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This group is for anyone who knows (or wants to know) about Virginia Woolf. If you have read all her works or none, loved her books or hated them, t ...more
Jane Austen
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