Tag: Virginia Woolf
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Virginia Woolf
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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.
Virginia Woolf
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It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Virginia Woolf
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You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.
Virginia Woolf
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Virginia Woolf
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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Virginia Woolf
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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Virginia Woolf
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The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia Woolf
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Virginia Woolf
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Virginia Woolf