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Type: Author Quotes Category: British Author Quotes Date of Birth: January 25, 1882 Date of Death: March 28, 1941 Nationality: British Find on Amazon: Virginia Woolf Related Authors: C. S. Lewis George Orwell James Allen George Eliot Neil Gaiman J. G. Ballard Jackie Collins Antonia Fraser |
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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?
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Virginia Woolf If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? Virginia Woolf If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Virginia Woolf If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share. Virginia Woolf Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Virginia Woolf 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 It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. Virginia Woolf It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality. Virginia Woolf It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. Virginia Woolf It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf 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 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 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 Language is wine upon the lips. Virginia Woolf Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. Virginia Woolf Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Virginia Woolf Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. Virginia Woolf Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. Virginia Woolf Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. Virginia Woolf My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? Virginia Woolf |
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