When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred. - Virginia Woolf

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When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

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About Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941), born Adeline Virginia Stephen, was a British writer who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist/feminist literary figures of the twentieth century.

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Birth Name: Adeline Virginia Stephen
Alternative Names: Virginia Stephen • Adeline Virginia Woolf • Virginia Adeline Woolf • Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf • Virginia Stephen Woolf
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We may enjoy our room in the tower, with the painted walls and the commodious bookcases, but down in the garden there is a man digging who buried his father this morning, and it is he and his like who live the real life and speak the real language.
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