All Virginia Woolf Quotes
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
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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?
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You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
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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.
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
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If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
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