Virginia Woolf

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

— Virginia Woolf

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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#cleanliness #endeavour #extravagance #genius #hard

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

— Virginia Woolf

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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#foreign #gifts #humor #perish #tongue

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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