So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. - Virginia Woolf

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So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

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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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