You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

—Virginia Woolf

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About Virginia Woolf

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Adeline Virginia Woolf ( "wolf"; née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.

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All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are "sides," and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot. As people mature they cease to believe in sides or in headmasters or in highly ornamental pots.

—Virginia Woolf

I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.

—Virginia Woolf

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

—Virginia Woolf

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There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

—Virginia Woolf

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

—Virginia Woolf

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.

—Louise Erdrich in The Painted Drum

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We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

—Lois McMaster Bujold in Diplomatic Immunity

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Nobody who ever accomplished anything big or new or worth raising a celebratory fist in the air did it from their comfort zone. They risked ridicule and failure and sometimes even death.

—Jen Sincero in You Are a Badass

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Sometimes the risk of what bad things could happen keeps us from experiencing all the good things life has to offer.

—Vi Keeland in Rebel Heir

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