Tag: Virginia Woolf
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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Virginia Woolf
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
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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.
Virginia Woolf
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
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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
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
Virginia Woolf
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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Virginia Woolf
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Virginia Woolf
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That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
Virginia Woolf