You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.- Virginia Woolf
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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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