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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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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
-- Henrik Ibsen
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf
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-- Akiko Yosano
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
-- Charles Dickens
History is a chain of wills attempting to transmit something.
-- Yasushi Inoue
There is no bad weather, only wrong clothing.
-- Born in Kaiserslautern in 1920