Tag: Virginia Woolf
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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf
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I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
Virginia Woolf
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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.
Virginia Woolf
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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
Virginia Woolf
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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.
Virginia Woolf
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Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia Woolf
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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Virginia Woolf
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I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.
Virginia Woolf
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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Virginia Woolf