Virginia Woolf

"A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out."

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Top Virginia Woolf Quotes

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more."

"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."

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