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Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?


Virginia Woolf

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VIRGINIA WOOLF Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private com...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality o...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I am rooted, but I flow.
VIRGINIA WOOLF When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLF Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always se...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy...
VIRGINIA WOOLF With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck betwee...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtl...
VIRGINIA WOOLF What I value is the naked contact of a mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic ac...
VIRGINIA WOOLF All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last,...
VIRGINIA WOOLF