1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

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    Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

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    Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

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    Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.

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    And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.

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    Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

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