Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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

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

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole...

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole...

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it...

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it...

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them,...

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them,...

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

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

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

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune...

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...

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain...

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain...

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him....

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him....

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...

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following...

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following...

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking...

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking...