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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Virginia Woolf
Control
Freedom
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Virginia Woolf
Father
Profession
Slavery
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf
Poems
Woman
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
Virginia Woolf
Men
Women
Pleasure
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
Virginia Woolf
Heart
Charity
Mind
Rest
Senses
Tolerance
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
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People
Misfortune
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
Poetry
People
Friends
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Virginia Woolf
Being
Now
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia Woolf
Habit
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
Virginia Woolf
Childhood
Space
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia Woolf
Art
Nature
Human nature
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Virginia Woolf
Sense
Youth
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
Virginia Woolf
People
Quotations
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf
Love
Sleep
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
Virginia Woolf
Nothing