Tag: Virginia Woolf
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One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Virginia Woolf
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It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
Virginia Woolf
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf
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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.
Virginia Woolf
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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?
Virginia Woolf
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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.
Virginia Woolf
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
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.
Virginia Woolf