It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Quote by Virginia Woolf
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
- Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
- It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
- Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
- I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
- Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
- It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
- If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
- Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
- This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
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