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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.
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But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves a shape distinct from others, is broken, and there is left of all these wrinkles and roughnesses a central oyster of perceptiveness, an enormous eye. How beautiful a street is in winter!
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.
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Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.
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Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.
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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.
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If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.
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Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.
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if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.
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The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.
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Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.
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