Virginia Woolf

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Virginia Woolf

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Language is wine upon the lips. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Virginia Woolf

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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. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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