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Biographies Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
- A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
- Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the…
- Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that…
- History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
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