It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. Virginia Woolf believecurioushandle Change image and share on social
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. Virginia Woolf dielifeorder Change image and share on social
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 where I have not shared and probably will not share. Virginia Woolf benefitcountryfight share on social
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf dreamidlenesssubmerge Change image and share on social
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. Virginia Woolf batterlikemisfortune Change image and share on social
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. Virginia Woolf cageeyeprison Change image and share on social
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. Virginia Woolf beautifulcompleteemotion Change image and share on social
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. Virginia Woolf growindecencylike Change image and share on social
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. Virginia Woolf emancipationhistoryinterest Change image and share on social
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. Virginia Woolf backgroundbeholdcat Change image and share on social
