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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Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole...

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole...

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy...

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy...

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

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

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

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...

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,...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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,...

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than...

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than...