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“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”

Virginia Woolf · Dreams

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Virginia Woolf

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.

Truth

Virginia Woolf

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?

Relationship

Virginia Woolf

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.

War

Virginia Woolf

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

God