Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

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...

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...

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one...

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one...

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of...

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of...

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...

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

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

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the...

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the...

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...

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...

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?

Language is wine upon the lips.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to...

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to...

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...

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

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

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?

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion...

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most...

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most...

I love my friends. Flaws, imperfections, weaknesses, insecurities and all. Not going to bring them...

I love my friends. Flaws, imperfections, weaknesses, insecurities and all. Not going to bring them...