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Quotes from The Death of the Moth and Other Essays — Virginia Woolf

1882–1941 England

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Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.

The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942)

The artist after all is a solitary being.

The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942)

Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.

The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942)

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