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Quotes by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf, born on January 25, 1882, in London, was a pioneering British author and a central figure in the modernist literary movement. Renowned for her innovative narrative techniques and profound exploration of the human psyche, Woolf's seminal works, such as "Mrs. Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse," have left an indelible mark on literature. As a vibrant advocate for women’s rights and mental health awareness, her legacy continues to inspire generations, underscoring her belief that "for most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
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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
"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"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"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
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
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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."
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"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
Virginia Woolf"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?"
Virginia Woolf"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice."
Virginia Woolf
"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
Virginia Woolf