Virginia Woolf Quotes

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Virginia Woolf

Profession : Author

Birth : January 25, 1882

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Virginia Woolf

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

Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

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

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

Virginia Woolf

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

Virginia Woolf

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Virginia Woolf

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

Virginia Woolf

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

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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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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

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

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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Virginia Woolf

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Virginia Woolf

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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