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Virginia Woolf quotes (17) Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. Virginia Woolf Category: Opinion The older one grows the more one likes indecency. Virginia Woolf Category: Old Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. Virginia Woolf Category: Humor One cannot think well love well sleep well if one has not dined well. Virginia Woolf Category: Time The history of mens opposition to womens emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. Virginia Woolf Category: Story The beauty of the world has two edges one of laughter one of anguish cutting the heart asunder. Virginia Woolf Category: Beauty Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. Virginia Woolf Category: Friendship Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. Virginia Woolf Category: History The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hours discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever. Virginia Woolf Category: Teach I would venture to guess that Anon who wrote so many poems without signing them was often a woman. Virginia Woolf Category: Writing Arrange whatever pieces come your way. Virginia Woolf Category: Adapt Last Words in a Suicide note: I feel certain that Im going mad again. I feel we cant go thru another of those terrible times. And I shant recover this time. I begin to hear voices. Virginia Woolf Category: Last 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. Virginia Woolf Category: Woe Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England. Virginia Woolf Category: Engineer If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Virginia Woolf Category: Unsorted I have lost friends some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street. Virginia Woolf Category: Death One cannot live well love well or sleep well unless one has dined well. Virginia Woolf Category: Food |
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