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.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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

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

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over...

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over...

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of...

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of...

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine...

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret...

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret...

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether,...

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether,...

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and...

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and...

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are...

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are...

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations,...

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations,...

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one...

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one...

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

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

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this...

Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this...

I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and...

I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and...

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is...

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is...

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.