Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...

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...

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

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

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

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

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

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...

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,...

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...

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

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...

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...

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one...

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one...

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled...

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled...

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than...

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than...

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind...

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind...

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...

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...

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

A theory must be tempered with reality.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove...

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove...