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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."
"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."
"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."
"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."
"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."
Explore more quotes by Virginia Woolf
"To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion? There is nobody-here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone."
"For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?"
"Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these - 'Chloe liked Olivia'. Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women."
"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."
"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."
"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
"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."
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