British - Author | January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Language is wine upon the lips.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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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.
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
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