When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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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...

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...

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering...

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering...

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?

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

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,...

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

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...

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a...

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a...

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people...

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people...

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...

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

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

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

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...

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form...

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form...

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...

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.