Orlando

by Virginia Woolf
England
25 Jan 1882 // 28 Mar 1941
Writer

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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.

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No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.

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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

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Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

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Orlando

Virginia Woolf

 

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