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And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

Virginia Woolf
Literature, Antagonist, Felt
Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.306, Wordsworth Editions

literature is the record of our discontent.

Virginia Woolf
Records, Literature, Discontent
Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2014, Delphi Classics

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

Virginia Woolf
Self, Six, Literature
Orlando ch. 6 (1928)

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

Virginia Woolf
Reality, Literature, Disease
Virginia Woolf (2006). “Orlando (Annotated): A Biography”, p.123, HMH

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Virginia Woolf
Writing, Quality, Literature
1925 The Common Reader, 'The Modern Essay'.

The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.

Virginia Woolf
Flames, Literature, World
Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.859, Delphi Classics

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.

Virginia Woolf
Wine, Water, Literature
Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.14, Oxford University Press

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

Virginia Woolf
Literature, Rooms, Essays
Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.12, Oxford University Press

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Virginia Woolf
Writing, Literature, Ifs
Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4409, Delphi Classics

Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

Virginia Woolf
Literature, Way, Common
Virginia Woolf (1992). “A woman's essays: selected essays, volume one”

That complete statement which is literature.

Virginia Woolf
Literature, Statements
Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2406, Delphi Classics

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