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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"This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say."
Virginia Woolf"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more."
Virginia Woolf"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
Virginia Woolf"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works."
Virginia Woolf"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves."
Virginia Woolf"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
Virginia Woolf"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness."
Virginia Woolf"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."
Virginia Woolf"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea."
Virginia Woolf"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
Virginia Woolf"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
Virginia Woolf"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
Virginia Woolf"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolf"The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own."
Virginia Woolf"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
Virginia Woolf"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry."
Virginia Woolf