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““I addressed my self as one would speak to a companion with whom one is voyaging to the North Pole.””

Virginia Woolf

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Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

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“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about to meet--what? What extraordinary adventure awaits me, among these mail vans, these porters, these swarms of people calling taxis? I feel insignificant, lost, but exultant. With a soft shock we stop. I will let the others…

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“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths are straight, the trees regular, the sun shaded; escorted by gentlemen, protected by policemen, wedded and buried by clergymen, she has only to walk demurely from cradle to grave and no one will touch a hair…

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“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of…

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Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

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“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing…

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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was…

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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

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Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake…

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“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the…

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“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.”

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“what a luxury to be alone once more,”

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“Doing the work to transform your dreams into reality is like walking across the earth. It can be that hard, and it can take…

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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

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Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last...…

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“We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. Modesty forbids us to say so, but there are times when we think pretty well of ourselves. And yet, if we examine it more closely, our enthusiasm turns out to be all a sham. We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want…

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If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia,…

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There's another totally fraudulent recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Al Gore hadn't done anything but make a movie that itself was filled with misrepresentations about the amount of ice the poor polar bears have to live on, doctored photos. He said in his acceptance speech in 2007, getting a Nobel Peace Prize, that the North Pole would be ice…

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Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this…

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“In winter this town is freezing. You step out your door in the morning and the whole place looks like one of those nature…

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Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I…

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“For me, madness was definitely not a condition of illness; I did not believe that I was ill. It was rather a country, opposed to Reality, where reigned an implacable light, blinding, leaving no place for shadow; an immense space without boundary, limitless, flat; a mineral, lunar country, cold as the wastes of the North Pole. In this stretching emptiness,…

Marguerite Sechehaye

“Vertiginously close? Can proximity cause vertigo? It can. When the North Pole comes so close as to touch the South Pole, the earth disappears…

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“Climate alarmists insist that the apparently missing heat (from CO2 warming)is hiding in the deep ocean -- which is like telling a child Santa Claus lives at the North Pole, as deep ocean heat can't be measured. -- Ralph B. Alexander, Letter to The Oregonian, January 28, 2013”

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