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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It exp...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is writ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
VIRGINIA SATIR
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
VIRGINIA SATIR
Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what make...
VIRGINIA SATIR
Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.
VIRGINIA SATIR
Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, th...
VIRGINIA POSTREL
There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest gro...
VIRGINIA FOXX
Glamour invites us to live in a different world. It has to simultaneously be mysterious, a little bi...
VIRGINIA POSTREL
The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commerc...
VIRGINIA POSTREL
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by l...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It h...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of ro...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by the...
VIRGINIA SATIR
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
VIRGINIA WOOLF
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entir...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
I hope Britney doesn't get bummed out that Lindsey is a better singer. It is not Lindsey saying ...
VIRGINIA MADSEN
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not abo...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Sin...
VIRGINIA POSTREL
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the wor...
VIRGINIA POSTREL
Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes mino...
VIRGINIA POSTREL
We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by fi...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times....
VIRGINIA WOOLF
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. Tha...
VIRGINIA WADE
When Baby Boomer women started choosing hotel-like birthing centers over hospital delivery rooms, ho...
VIRGINIA POSTREL