Virginia Woolf Quotes
1882 – 1941
English author and essayist considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. Known for stream-of-consciousness writing and pioneering essays on women and literature.
22 quotesAbout Virginia Woolf on Wikipedia
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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
“Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”
“The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted.”
“There were the eternal problems: suffering; death; the poor.”
“Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.”
“Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger's-breadth from goodness.”