The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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,...

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

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...

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any...

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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...

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.