Quotes by Virginia Woolf

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

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It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any...

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

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

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

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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret...

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

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

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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it...

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I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well...

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

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