It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
From Virginia Woolf
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
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.
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
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?
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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