Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Virginia Woolf

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Vain trifles as they seem, clothes change our view of the world and the world’s view of us.

Virginia Woolf


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Life stand still here.

Virginia Woolf

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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

Virginia Woolf

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He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.

Virginia Woolf

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Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

Virginia Woolf


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What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

Virginia Woolf


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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

Virginia Woolf

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What a lark! What a plunge!

Virginia Woolf

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

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