We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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

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

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

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

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...

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing...

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing...

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?

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.

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...

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...

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain...

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain...

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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...

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over...

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over...

Language is wine upon the lips

Language is wine upon the lips

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

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,...

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing:...

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,...

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...

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...