All Virginia Woolf Quotes
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Virginia Woolf
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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Virginia Woolf
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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
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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
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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
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Virginia Woolf
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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia Woolf
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf
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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
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
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