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Virginia Woolf Quotes

«It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality»
«They can because they think they can.»
«But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.»
«Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man, at twice its natural size»
«Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.»
«Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.»
Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | Keywords: candied, Human nature
«The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.»
«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.»
«My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?»
«To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.»
Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | About: Freedom

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