Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

English writer

Lived from: 1882 - 1941

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 25 january 1882 Died: 28 march 1941

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  • What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying
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  • When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
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  • Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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  • Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
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  • 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.
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  • Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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  • You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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  • The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
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  • Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
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