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Virginia Woolf

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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.


— Virginia Woolf


#effort

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.


— Virginia Woolf


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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.


— Virginia Woolf


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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.


— Virginia Woolf


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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?


— Virginia Woolf


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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.


— Virginia Woolf


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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.


— Virginia Woolf


#love

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


— Virginia Woolf


#women

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.


— Virginia Woolf


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Books are the mirrors of the soul.


— Virginia Woolf


#metaphor #soul #acting






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". Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925) To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928) and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum "A woman must have money and a room of her own if Virginia Woolf is to write fiction. During the interwar period Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals.

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