Virginia Woolf

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#ask #courage #her #life #means

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? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#compared #could #friendly #men #pleasure

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#happened #nothing #really #recorded #until

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#creative #how #odd #once #order

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#comes #god #i #job #last

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#conversations #cuts #most #observations #own

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

— Virginia Woolf

#dreams #idleness #our #our dreams #sometimes

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#breathe #charity #heart #kindliness #magnanimity

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#fatal #man #manly #must #pure

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beings #birth #fellowship #human #human beings