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Virginia Woolf
January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941
Nationality: British
Category: Author
Subcategory: British Author

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

   

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?

   

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

   

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

   

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?

   

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

   

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

   

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.

   

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

   

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

   

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

   

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

   

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

   

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

   

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

   

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

   

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

   

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

   

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

   

Language is wine upon the lips.

   

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