Virginia Woolf on Truth
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Virginia Woolf, catalogued under truth, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Virginia Woolf, entry #142669: "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
Attributed to Virginia Woolf, entry #153377: "Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever."
5 Quotes by Virginia Woolf on Truth
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
"Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever."
"She alone spoke the truth; to her alone could he speak it. That was the source of her everlasting attraction for him, perhaps; she was a person to whom one could say what came into one's head."
"Only those who have little need of the truth, and no respect for it — the poets and novelists — can be trusted to do it, for this is one of the cases where the truth does no exist. Nothing exists. The whole thing is a miasma — a mirage."
"While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace."