Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) was an English modernist writer. She was considered a pioneer in the art of using stream of consciousness as a writing style. She is best known for her novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To The Lighthouse, but she also wrote many collections of short stories.
Virginia Woolf's Knowledge Bomb:
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
It is always much easier for us to point out what we feel is the truth about other people. It's simple for us to look at someone and say, he is a lout, she is a liar, he is devious. These "truths" that we tell do nothing to sting us unless the person that we are talking about is someone very close to us.
When it comes to telling the truth about ourselves. I am a lout. I am a liar, I am devious...that is a much more difficult truth. For in that truth we must look into our deepest wounds and cut them even deeper before we can start the healing process. The truth about ourselves is not just a matter of putting a bandage on a scrape. It's a matter of scraping more skin off until we have uncovered the pure truth.
Then we can let it heal.
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