A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
- Virginia Woolf Quote
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own.
- Virginia Woolf Quote
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
- Virginia Woolf Quote
As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.
- Virginia Woolf Quote
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
- Virginia Woolf Quote
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
- Virginia Woolf Quote
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.
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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
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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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If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
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It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
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It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
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Language is wine upon the lips.
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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.
- Virginia Woolf Quote
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
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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?
- Virginia Woolf Quote
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
- Virginia Woolf Quote
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
- Virginia Woolf Quote
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
- Virginia Woolf Quote
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
- Virginia Woolf Quote
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
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They can because they think they can.
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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
- Virginia Woolf Quote
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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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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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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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
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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 heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size.
- Virginia Woolf Quote
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- Virginia Woolf Quote
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.
- Virginia Woolf Quote
You send a boy to school in order to make friends of the right sort.
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