“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.”
Quote by Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
British modernist writer, known for her unique narrative techniques and profound portrayal of female experience. Her works include 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Mrs. Dalloway'. more
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“It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.”
Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas
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Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
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Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918
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“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”
Source: The Common Reader