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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer, novelist, essayist, and literary critic. She is best known for her novels - Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves.

Wisdom & Quotes

  • The beauty of the world which is soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
- A Room of One's Own
  • One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
- A Room of One's Own
  • When an arguer argues dispassionately, he thinks only of the argument.
- A Room of One's Own
  • The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him must be incandescent. …There must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.
- A Room of One's Own
  • I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without singing them, was often a woman.
- A Room of One's Own
  • Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
- A Room of One's Own
  • Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
- A Room of One's Own
  • Fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a pebble upon the ground, as science may be; fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
- A Room of One's Own
  • Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
- A Room of One's Own
  • Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- A Room of One's Own
  • Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
- Mrs Dalloway
  • Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
- quoted in Harold Nicolson, Diaries
  • Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
- Lady Dorothy Nevill, in The Common Reader
  • If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
- The Moment and Other Essays
  • The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
- Monday or Tuesday
  • Life's bare as a bone.
- An Unwritten Novel, Monday or Tuesday
  • If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic, and aged.
- A Writer's Diary
  • To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

Khalil Gibran

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