Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living? - Virginia Woolf

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Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

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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 Adeline Virginia Alexandra Stephen
Alternative Names: Virginia Stephen Adeline Virginia Woolf Virginia Adeline Woolf Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf Virginia Stephen Woolf Adeline Virginia Alexandra Woolf

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If, then, one should try to sum up the character of women's fiction at the present moment, one would say that it is courageous; it is sincere; it keeps closely to what women feel. It is not bitter. It does not insist upon its femininity.

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