“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: life
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It is the nature of the artist
“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
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: men
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The beautiful seems right by force of
“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: beauty
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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious;
“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: best
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary
“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.”
— Virginia Woolf
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Mental fight means thinking against the current,
“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
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: business
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For what Harley Street specialist has time
“For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?”
— Virginia Woolf
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We can best help you to prevent
“We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
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A woman must have money and a
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
— Virginia Woolf
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It is in our idleness, in our
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
— Virginia Woolf
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Category: truth
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