It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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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...

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

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

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be...

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be...

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...

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.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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,...

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...

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people...

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people...

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form...

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form...

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I...

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I...

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the...

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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 -...