The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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 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,...

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and...

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and...

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...

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to...

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to...

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...

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

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...

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.

With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in...

With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in...

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.