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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7842/">Quotes by <em>Woolf, Virginia</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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

Woolf, Virginia · Adversity · 0 fans >>
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"Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!"

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"For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?"

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"There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking."

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"A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back."

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"Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face -- as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought."

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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

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"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

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"Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand."

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"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

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