| As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. |
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- Virginia Woolf |
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| But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. |
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- Virginia Woolf |
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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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- Virginia Woolf |
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| Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. |
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- Virginia Woolf |
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| The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. |
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- Virginia Woolf |
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| Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. |
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- Virginia Woolf |
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| There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. |
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- Virginia Woolf |
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| One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats and one always secretes too much jelly. |
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- Virginia Woolf |
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| All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side. |
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- Virginia Woolf |
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| Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses providing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man as twice its natural size. |
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- Virginia Woolf |
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| The mind is the most capricious of insects - flitting, fluttering. |
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- Virginia Woolf |
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