Virginia Woolf

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Virginia Woolf

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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