Virginia Woolf Quotes
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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
[Home]
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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
[Action]
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad.
[Journalism]
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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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What could be more charming than a boy before he has begun to cultivate his intellect? He is beautiful to look at; he gives himself no airs; he understands the meaning of art and literature instinctively; he goes about enjoying his life and making other people enjoy theirs.
[Youth]
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
[Goals]
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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
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