If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not…

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well...

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well...

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any...

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any...

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...

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

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

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,...

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions...

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions...

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his...

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his...

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

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.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the...

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the...

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,...

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

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

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming,...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming,...

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship...

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship...

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...

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...

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write...

A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write...

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to...

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to...

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people...

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people...