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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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money
on-writing
virgin
women
writing
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Virginia Woolf |
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And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding... { }
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father
freedom-of-thought
irreligion
jupiter
minerva
myth
reason
supreme-being
united-states
virgin
virgin-birth
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Thomas Jefferson |
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8eb6fa3
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He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.
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olfactory
perfume
preservation
preserve
principle
scent
smell
the-story-of-a-murderer
virgin
virginity
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Patrick Süskind |
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...he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a virgin and not a virgin all at once. He wanted to know her. Intimate secrets: Why poetry? Why so sad? Why that grayness in her eyes? Why so alone? Not lonely, just alone - riding her bike across campus or sitting off by herself in the cafeteria - even dancing, she danced alone - and it was the aloneness that filled him with love. He remembered telling her that one evening. How she nodded and looked away. And how, later, when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes, just flat and uninvolved.
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the-things-they-carried
tim-o-brien
virgin
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Tim O'Brien |
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Trust me, sweetheart, there is a reason centuries of fathers have fought brutal wars to protect the concept of Immaculate Conception.
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protection
purity
virgin
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Karin Slaughter |
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"The child in the middle of the room was glaring at him, for child she was, no matter what her advanced years. She was a virgin, untouched, unkissed, innocent and angry, and he was prepared to enjoy himself immensely. "So tell me, little one. What really brought you here?"
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virgin
young-woman
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Anne Stuart |
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Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I could prepare myself. For what? I didn't know, nor how, except by taking a look around at the little I would be leaving.
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preparation
virgin
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Graham Greene |
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Did it really happen as the legend said? Did they in truth dance here? Were they struck down in their defiance and turned to stone, to stand on this spot as the centuries passed? How fortunate they were! Sudden death was preferable to a lingering one. I thought of the seventh - the one who had been dragged to the hollow wall, the one who was shut in to die; and I was filled with a momentary melancholy.
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legend
virgin
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Victoria Holt |