“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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The truth is, I often like women.
“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: truth
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The man who is aware of himself
“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.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: happiness
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This is an important book, the critic
“This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: women
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It seems as if an age of
“It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: age
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The connection between dress and war is
“The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: war
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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births;
“Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: experience
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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: relationship
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If you do not tell the truth
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: truth
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Humor is the first of the gifts
“Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: humor
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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious
“The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.”
— Virginia Woolf
Author: Virginia Woolf
Category: romantic
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