It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
From Virginia Woolf
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
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