Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more tha…

Virginia Woolf
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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 creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2009). Selected Essays, p.232, OUP Oxford
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Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). The Common Reader, p.122, Lulu Press, Inc
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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 creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2009). Selected Essays, p.232, OUP Oxford

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