"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
-Virginia Woolf
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"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.“
-Virginia Woolf
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"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."
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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."
-Virginia Woolf
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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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"If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?"
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"Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."
-Virginia Woolf
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"Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that."
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"All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep."
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"Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself."
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"I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion."
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