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Letter "V" » Virginia Woolf Quotes
«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.»
«To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.»
«There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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across the country, gallop, highbrow, highbrows, thoroughbred
«Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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coherent, elementary, give vent, ingenious, sentences, substituted, vent, vents
«How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I meant, what is the reality of any feeling?»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
«This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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assumes, critic, deals, drawing, drawing room, insignificant, The Critic
«The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not»
«Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.»
«For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together that you cannot separate them.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
«Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.»
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