Virginia Woolf

(159 votes)   "You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the color goes out of my life."

Virginia Woolf
to her sister

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(15 votes)   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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(13 votes)   The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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(9 votes)   The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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

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(391 votes)   The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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(330 votes)   It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? For we have too much likeness as it is, and if an explorer should come back and bring word of other sexes looking through the branches of other trees at other skies, nothing would be of greater service to humanity; and we should have the immense pleasure into the bargain of watching Professor X rush for his measuring-rods to prove himself ''superior.''

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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(328 votes)   Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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(283 votes)   What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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(273 votes)   If we didn't live adventurously, 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.

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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(254 votes)   Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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(250 votes)   Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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(217 votes)   Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title, James Spalding, or Charles Budgeon, and the passengers going the opposite way could read nothing at all -- save ''a man with a red moustache,'' ''a young man in gray smoking a pipe.''

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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(134 votes)   When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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(118 votes)   Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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