On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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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...

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...

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...

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.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes...

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes...

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...

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...

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...

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...

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

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...

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,...

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

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...

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.

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,...

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to...

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to...

Language is wine upon the lips.

Language is wine upon the lips.