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Virginia Woolf Quotes

«The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.»
«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.»
«Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?»
«We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey!»
«What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once»
«Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.»
Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | Keywords: bolts, poised
«In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.»
«[Queen Victoria] knew her own mind. But the mind radically commonplace, only its inherited force, and cumulative sense of power, making it remarkable.»
«a mistress of much deeper emotion than appears on the surface. She stimulates us to supply what is not there.»
«Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.»

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