"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
~ Virginia Woolf ~












If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
More Virginia Woolf quotes
"Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
"A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
"Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
"I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.
"Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?
"No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.
"He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the stree...
"Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels, he thought...
"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
"Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.
"Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?
"He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open,...