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Letter "V" » Virginia Woolf Quotes
«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.»
«Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
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deform,
deforms,
distorting,
distorts,
fetter,
fettered,
fetters,
fitting,
fittings,
harsh,
harsher,
ill,
inevitably,
in fetters,
look upon
«The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.»
«Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title»
«If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
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benefits,
gratifies,
gratify,
insist,
instinct,
Let It Be,
procure,
procured,
procures,
procuring,
protect,
rationally,
shared,
soberly
«Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.»
«I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
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Keywords:
break open,
cork,
deride,
derided,
derides,
flung,
ribbon,
ribbons,
tongues,
twitch,
twitches,
twitching,
up and down,
weed
«Language is wine upon the lips»
«One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.»
«Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.»