Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf, known professionally as Virginia Woolf, was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 January 1882
CityLondon, England
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.
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For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.
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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.
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It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
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Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
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Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.