Virginia Woolf

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Virginia Woolf

business

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.

Virginia Woolf

courage

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

dreams

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

dreams

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Virginia Woolf

education

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Virginia Woolf

experience

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Virginia Woolf

experience

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Virginia Woolf

freedom

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Virginia Woolf

friendship

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

Virginia Woolf

god

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