All Virginia Woolf Quotes
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
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It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
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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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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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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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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
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