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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. - Virginia Woolf

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality. - Virginia Woolf

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. - Virginia Woolf

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. - Virginia Woolf

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. - Virginia Woolf

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? - Virginia Woolf

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. - Virginia Woolf

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. - Virginia Woolf

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. - Virginia Woolf

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. - Virginia Woolf

Language is wine upon the lips. - Virginia Woolf

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. - Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. - Virginia Woolf

That great Cathedral space which was childhood. - Virginia Woolf

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. - Virginia Woolf

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. - Virginia Woolf

Arrange whatever pieces come your way. - Virginia Woolf

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. - Virginia Woolf

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. - Virginia Woolf

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. - Virginia Woolf

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