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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British Author
Born: Jan 25, 1882
Died: Mar 28, 1941
Life Man Mind People Woman You
Related authors: Dorothy L. Sayers George Eliot George Orwell Ian Fleming J. G. Ballard James Allen Marcus Buckingham Neil Gaiman
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
Good Quality Draw Out Must About Permanent Essay Curtain Us Round
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. Virginia Woolf
Best Poetry Delicious Prose True Most Which Full
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? Virginia Woolf
Women Men More Than Interesting Much Why
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. Virginia Woolf
Truth You Man Background Say Perceive Cat Instantly Look Piece Fish Up Get Behold Forgotten Sandy
Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do. Virginia Woolf
Great People Responsible Never Bodies
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. Virginia Woolf
War You Clothes Soldiers Those Wear Dress Seek Finest Between Far Your Connection
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Virginia Woolf
Woman Guess Indeed Signing Would Poems Wrote Anon Venture Without Often Them Who Many
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. Virginia Woolf
Father Depend Odious Than Form Less Profession Slavery
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
Myself Woman Old Thinking Mood Write Always Am Queer Very Again Now
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. Virginia Woolf
Sight Trivial Print Personalities Eternity
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. Virginia Woolf
Truth Women Truth Is Completeness Like Anonymity Often
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. Virginia Woolf
Alone Frame Rigid Habit Human Skeleton
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
Youth Signs Sense Other Birth Our Take Fellowship Passing Human Human Beings Place Them Beings Among
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. Virginia Woolf
Mind Poet Gives Prose Takes His Essence Us Body Mold
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. Virginia Woolf
Age People Way Laugh Run Steps Look Deaths Up Diseases Us
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied? Virginia Woolf
Human Being Somewhere Down Everywhere Hidden Seek Written Written Down Know Him Occupied Idly Human Being Form Apparent Now Ever
You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort. Virginia Woolf
You School Make Sort Boy Friends Send Order Right
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. Virginia Woolf
Boredom Kingdom Legitimate Philanthropic
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. Virginia Woolf
Beautiful Beauty Weakness Seems Feeble Wrong Force Because Right
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. Virginia Woolf
Creative Add Our Respects Collection Give More Fact Facts He Almost Another Fertile Than Any Us Much
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back. Virginia Woolf
Mind Finished Back Complete Once Stated Something Only Masterpiece Said
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? Virginia Woolf
Relationship Women Men Relations Secret Pleasure About Could Write Private Friendly Truthfully Compared Why Why Not
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? Virginia Woolf
Woman Heart Poet Hat Shall Caught Tangled Body Measure Who Violence
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
Work Hard Work Age Genius Extravagance Must Riot Seems Cleanliness Endeavour Succeeded Hard
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Virginia Woolf
Woman Guess Signing Would Poems Wrote Anon Venture Without Often Them Who Many
That great Cathedral space which was childhood. Virginia Woolf
Great Space Cathedral Childhood Which
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