Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Be truthful, one would say, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But for ourselves, we resent teachers. Let a man get up and say, 'Behold, this is the truth,' and instantly I perceive… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But it is always a question whether I wish to avoid these glooms. These weeks give one a plunge into deep waters.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“to let the light of the world flood back-to say this has not happened! But why turn one's head hither and thither?… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For the truth is (let her ignore it) that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial – and any question about sex is that – one cannot hope to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We had nothing to say to each other; and I was conscious that not only my remarks but my presence was criticized.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“To give a truthful account of London society at that or indeed at any other time, is beyond the powers of the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For the truth is ... that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Beauty, the world seemed to say. And as if to prove it (scientifically) wherever he looked at the houses, at the railings,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“To give a truthful account of London society at that or indeed at any other time, is beyond the powers of the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There it lay in the early sunshine of spring. It looked a town rather than a house, but a town built, not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“tried to be honest, as if honesty were part of my philosophy, and” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact. Therefore” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“To tell the truth about oneself, to discover oneself near at hand, is not easy.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring ---” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The lady of 50 will be able to say how near to the truth I come; but I have written enough for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
![“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England ], she was locked up, beaten…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/755/virginia-woolf-49_abuse_if-woman-had-no-existence-save-in-the-fi_1851263.jpg)
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