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Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
- The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
- The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
- The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
- The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
- The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
- The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
- There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
- This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
- 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 thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
- To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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