All Virginia Woolf Quotes
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
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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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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Virginia Woolf
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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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