The best Quotes by Virginia Woolf

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The best Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors.

Language is wine upon the lips.

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

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Quotes about Virginia Woolf

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Madeleine: "A Charlotte Brontë."
Florence: "And a Virginia Woolf."
Madeleine: "Oh, and an Agatha Christie. For reading."

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