Tag: Virginia Woolf
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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf
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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia Woolf
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Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
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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
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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
Virginia Woolf
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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
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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
Virginia Woolf
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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?
Virginia Woolf
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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