“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: dreams
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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: truth
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To enjoy freedom we have to control
“To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: freedom
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For most of history, Anonymous was a
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: history
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Some people go to priests; others to
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: friendship
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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
Category: war
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Odd how the creative power at once
“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: power
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds
“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: alone
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If one could be friendly with women,
“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?”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: men
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Yet it is in our idleness, in
“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: truth
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The beauty of the world, which is
“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: beauty
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