Memorable Quotes and quotations from Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf English novelist (1882 - 1941)Virginia Woolf - - The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. Virginia Woolf - - Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. Virginia Woolf - - For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. Virginia Woolf - - Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. Virginia Woolf - Diary, 17 February 1922 - I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual. Virginia Woolf - - Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. Virginia Woolf - - If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Virginia Woolf - - It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf - - 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. Virginia Woolf - - I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Virginia Woolf - - For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. Virginia Woolf - - You can not gain peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf - The Waves (1931) - I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. |
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