British - Author | January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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.
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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.
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
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I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
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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.
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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
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