British - Author | January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Virginia Woolf
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
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That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
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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.
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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
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It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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