Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. Virginia Woolf
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
Still, life had a way of adding day to day. Virginia Woolf
Still, life had a way of adding day to day.
To love makes one solitary. Virginia Woolf
To love makes one solitary.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Virginia Woolf
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. Virginia Woolf
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud.
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Virginia Woolf
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away Virginia Woolf
To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away
He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink. Virginia Woolf
He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. Virginia Woolf
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. Virginia Woolf
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.