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I want the concentration and t...

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Sleep, that deplorable curtail...

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

On the outskirts of every agon...

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

One likes people much better w...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

If one could be friendly with ...

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 938 quotes

The truth is, I often like wom...

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I was in a queer mood, thinkin...

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Nothing induces me to read a n...

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

It seems as if an age of geniu...

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 938 quotes

Literature is strewn with the ...

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

One has to secrete a jelly in ...

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

That great Cathedral space whi...

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

The history of men's oppositio...

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I would venture to guess that ...

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

The poet gives us his essence,...

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Who shall measure the hat and ...

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

This soul, or life within us, ...

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

A masterpiece is something sai...

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.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

It is far harder to kill a pha...

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

When the shriveled skin of the...

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

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