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«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?»
«A strange thing has happened -- while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time.»
«The first duty of a lecturer - to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever»
«The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.»
Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | Keywords: mold, prose
«It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.»
«Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning»
Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: halo, luminous, transparent
«'I' is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.»
Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | Keywords: convenient, term
«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?»
«One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph»
«When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.»

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