We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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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...

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...

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

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...

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo,...

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo,...

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...

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret...

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret...

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...

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.

This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It's not just that...

This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It's not just that...

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any...

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any...

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what...

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what...