Virginia Woolf

There can be no doubt, I thought, pushing aside the newspaper, that our mean lives, unsightly as they are, put on splendour and have meaning only under the eyes of love ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#love

Love had meant nothing to him but sawdust and cinders. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#love

...a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#love

Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#silence #woolf #love

For in marriage a little licence,a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and she him. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#marriage

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#money

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#frame #habit #human #human frame #rigid

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

— Virginia Woolf

#harder #kill #phantom #reality #than

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#believed #could #curious #handling #how

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

— Virginia Woolf

#guess #i #indeed #many #often