Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
— Virginia Woolf Modern

Modernist novelist

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A Room of One's Own (quoting John Stuart Mill)

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1929

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Humorous

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1328

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