A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a British modernist novelist and essayist whose experimental works - 'Mrs Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse,' and 'Orlando' - revolutionized narrative technique through stream of consciousness and lyrical prose. Her essay 'A Room of One's Own' remains a foundational text of feminist literary criticism.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
-- Oscar Wilde
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
-- Virginia Woolf
One must always be drunk. That is everything: the only question.
-- Charles Baudelaire
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
-- Napoleon
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
-- William Shakespeare
I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
-- Cao Cao