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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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...

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story...

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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 a room of her own if she is to...

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing...

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing...

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...

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...

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.

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,...

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...

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

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

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by...

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by...

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.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood...

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood...

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.