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

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is...

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is...

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...

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...

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:...

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.

A woman must have money and a room of her own.

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...

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...

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

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...

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most...

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most...

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,...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the...

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the...

Vanity, thy name is

Vanity, thy name is

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce....

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce....

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes...

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes...

When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.

When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.