Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson wr. c. October 1904
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She did not care for the company of humans, because they were small and bothersome. She just watched the birds in the trees and picked mushrooms in the forest. Her life with herself was complete and she felt little need to ever change it.
Hiromi Goto, Chorus of Mushrooms
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"And then the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and autumn awakened."
Raquel Franco
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"The month of half summer, half autumn. Half sophistication, half barbarity."
~ John Lewis-Stempel, Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field, "September"
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Virginia Woolf in a letter to Violet Dickinson
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The clouds overhead are purple in their heart, but soaked in brilliant sunshine from the west. There will be a storm soon. I find myself idly looking forward to this: autumn thunderstorms have always been a delight.
Kij Johnson, The Fox Woman
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"how gladly i watched the summer fade, the leaves turn yellow on the trees, and the grass dry out over the wide steppe! summer is gone at last! the winds of autumn howl and groan, the first snow falls in whirling flakes."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, House of the Dead
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