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We are nauseated by the sight ...

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Someone has to die in order th...

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Where the Mind is biggest, the...

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Life is not a series of gig la...

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

The telephone, which interrupt...

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

The man who is aware of himsel...

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 938 quotes

My own brain is to me the most...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Really I don't like human natu...

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

A good essay must have this pe...

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Odd how the creative power at ...

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I read the book of Job last ni...

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

It is fatal to be a man or wom...

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

The beauty of the world, which...

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 938 quotes

To depend upon a profession is...

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

One of the signs of passing yo...

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

The connection between dress a...

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Nothing has really happened un...

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Yet, it is true, poetry is del...

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Boredom is the legitimate king...

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

We can best help you to preven...

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 938 quotes

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