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"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
13+ Quotes by Virginia Woolf
A curated collection of 13 inspirational quotes by Virginia Woolf on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends."
— Virginia Woolf
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"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
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"When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly."
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"When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly."
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"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works."
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"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."
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"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."
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"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."
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"This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say."
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"This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say."
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"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice."
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"If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?"