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Women made civilisation impossible with all their "charm " all their silliness. — Virginia Woolf

F anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. — Virginia Woolf

They say that one must beat one's wings against the storm in the belief that beyond this welter the sun shines — Virginia Woolf

Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains ... — Virginia Woolf

But that was too harsh a phrase - could depend so — Virginia Woolf

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories? — Virginia Woolf

I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold. — Virginia Woolf

We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art. — Virginia Woolf

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred. — Virginia Woolf

Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you. — Virginia Woolf

Not as oneself did one find rest ever, in her experience (she accomplished here something dexterous with her needles) but as a wedge of darkness. — Virginia Woolf

It was only by scorning all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently painful. — Virginia Woolf

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions. — Virginia Woolf

I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement ... — Virginia Woolf

What a lark! What a plunge! — Virginia Woolf

Often I feel the different aspects of life bursting my mind asunder. — Virginia Woolf

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person. — Virginia Woolf

Being constantly hungry is no life at all. — Emma Woolf

I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them. — Virginia Woolf

Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision. — Virginia Woolf

And if someone should see, what matter they? — Virginia Woolf

Nothing has really happened unless it's been described [in words]. — Virginia Woolf

To write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale. — Virginia Woolf

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it. — Virginia Woolf

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living? — Virginia Woolf

to teach without zest is a crime. — Virginia Woolf

Mr John Langdon Davies warns women 'that when children cease to be altogether desirable, women cease to be altogether necessary'. — Virginia Woolf

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality. — Virginia Woolf

The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. — Virginia Woolf

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.] — Virginia Woolf

They neither work nor weep; in their shape is their reason. — Virginia Woolf

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way. — Alan Bennett