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?

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact...

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact...

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

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

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

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

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to...

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to...

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...

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting...

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting...

Language is wine upon the lips

Language is wine upon the lips

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -...

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -...

Language is wine upon the lips.

Language is wine upon the lips.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other...

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other...

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

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

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,...

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering...

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering...

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one...

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one...

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

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

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

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend,...

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend,...

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the...

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the...