Words of Wisdom: Virginia Woolf

By Students' Academy

Among the female writers of the past and present, Virginia Woolf has her very distinct place. Her classics have contributed greatly to English and world literature.

Her short stories, novels, and essays are equally popular among young and old even today. Several of her works are taught at schools and colleges all over the world.

Her intelligent remarks and statements in her works draw immense praise from her readers. One needs to think deeply to get to the bottom of some of her beautiful philosophic lines in her works.

Her intelligent and didactic sayings in her novels and stories are also very interesting and thought provoking. In this book you will get to read hundreds of such quotes and lines which teem with her unmatched wisdom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Mar 20, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310420054

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Words of Wisdom: Virginia Woolf

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Introduction

Virginia Woolf is one of the most famous and popular female writers. English literature owes her immensely for her contributions. She has given some of the most famous essays, short stories, and novels to the world literature.

She is known for her witty remarks and intelligent quotes. Her writings teem with the presentation of her wisdom in the form of written words. Some of the sentences composed by Virginia Woolf have become very popular quotes.

Her sayings are not only intelligent and didactic, but also very interesting and thought provoking. In this book we have included some of the best lines written by this great writer.

Section One

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

"When the Day of