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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.

~ Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Quality Essay Must

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

~ Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Woman Most Anonymous

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

~ Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Meaning Skin Senses

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.

~ Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Thinking Body People

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

Virginia Woolf Life Soul Quality

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

~ Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Life Soul People

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

~ Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Laughter Heart World

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

~ Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Friends Poetry People

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

~ Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Writing Me Nothing

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

~ Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Short Serious Telephone

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

~ Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Best True Which

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

~ Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Literature Opinions Reason

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

~ Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Skeleton Human Frame

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

~ Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf Control Enjoy Ourselves
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