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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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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,...

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion...

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion...

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...

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy...

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy...

Language is wine upon the lips.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the...

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the...

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and...

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and...

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 those who have minded beyond reason the opinion...

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion...

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...

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,...

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...

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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...

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...

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.

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing...

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing...

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

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:...