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" 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. "

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Truth

Business

" The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. "

" It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality. "

" On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. "

" You cannot find peace by avoiding life. "

" I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. "

" One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. "

" Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. "

" Arrange whatever pieces come your way. "

" A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. "

" The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. "

" One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. "

" Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. "

" The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. "

" Language is wine upon the lips. "

" Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. "

" Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. "

" Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. "

" It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. "

" Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. "

Virginia Woolf

Still

Spider

" You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort. "

" We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. "

Virginia Woolf

Personalities

Eternity

" The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. "

" If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? "

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Facts

Fact

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" The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. "

" There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. "

" I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. "

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