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Mean Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and…
- It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me;…
- Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
- This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she…
- and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage
- That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your…
- A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by…
- Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did…
- Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of…
- How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?
- It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was…
- Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to…
- If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to…
- If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?
- I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden…
- Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I…
- Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty…
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