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“Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.”

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Book:A Room of One's Own (Annotated)

Work

A Room of One's Own (Annotated)

A Room of One's Own is a seminal essay by Virginia Woolf that delves into the historical and cultural constraints faced by women. The annotated edition provides readers with additional insights and scholarly analysis, enhancing the understanding of Woolf's arguments and the context of her work. more

Author

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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Book:Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando: A Biography

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Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?”

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Book:A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

“When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.”

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Book:A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

“You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.”

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Book:The Common Reader

Source: The Common Reader

“Life's bare as a bone.”

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees ... one's happiness, one's reality?”

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Book:Monday or Tuesday

Source: Monday or Tuesday

“So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)