English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941)

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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.
You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

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