Virginia Woolf quotes

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The beauty of the world ... has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand ...
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attach ...
Who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
When a subject is highly controversial ... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opin ...
All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, bel ...
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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