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It's my choice, to choose how to live my life. — Virginia Woolf

What did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it was very queer. — Virginia Woolf

They became part of that unreal but penetrating and exciting universe which is the world seen through the eyes of love — Virginia Woolf

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely. — Virginia Woolf

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? — Virginia Woolf

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality. — Virginia Woolf

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. — Virginia Woolf

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty. — Virginia Woolf

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes — Virginia Woolf

But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginning, just moving, just descending. — Virginia Woolf

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do. They are driven by instincts which are not within their control. — Virginia Woolf

All raw, uncooked, protesting."
(on Aldous Huxley) — Virginia Woolf

I would never re-write you. You are by far my most complete and greatest novel. — Virginia Woolf

I love tremendous and sonorous words. — Virginia Woolf

I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me. — Virginia Woolf

The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it. — Virginia Woolf

To love makes one solitary. — Virginia Woolf

Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning? — Virginia Woolf

There is little blood in my arm, Isabella repeated. — Virginia Woolf

People are - nothing more. — Virginia Woolf

She felt that if only one could begin things at the beginning, one might see more clearly upon what foundations they now rest. — Virginia Woolf

Loveliness is infernally sad. — Virginia Woolf

Extremes of feeling are allied to madness; — Virginia Woolf

She would not say of anyone that they were this or that. — Virginia Woolf

He was afraid he did not understand beauty apart form human beings. — Virginia Woolf

It is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams — Virginia Woolf

. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest. — Virginia Woolf

Sometimes she arches away from me and wears a light halo of genius about her. — Priya Parmar

Life's bare as a bone. — Virginia Woolf

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are. — Virginia Woolf

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. — Virginia Woolf

The present participle is the Devil himself, she thought, now that we are in the place for believing in Devils. — Virginia Woolf

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. — Virginia Woolf

She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. — Virginia Woolf

Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity. — Virginia Woolf

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. — Virginia Woolf

Before parting that night we agreed that the objects of life were to produce good people and good books. — Virginia Woolf

One rose leaf, falling from an enormous height, like a little parachute dropped from an invisible balloon, turns, flutters waveringly. — Virginia Woolf

You have been marking the passages that seem to approve of your own character. — Virginia Woolf

The words issuing from her lips like crumbs of dry biscuit. — Virginia Woolf

We are not as simple as our friends would have us to meet their ends. — Virginia Woolf

Thoughts are divine. — Virginia Woolf

For I am more selves than Neville thinks. We are not as simple as our friends would have us to meet our needs. Yet love is simple. — Virginia Woolf

She looked pale, mysterious, like a lily, drowned under water, he thought. — Virginia Woolf

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published. — Virginia Woolf

Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself. — Virginia Woolf

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better. — Virginia Woolf

Why are women ... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? — Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence — Virginia Woolf

Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind ... — Virginia Woolf

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that. — Virginia Woolf

And if someone should see, what matter they? — 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

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

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

One does not love a place the less because one has suffered in it. — Virginia Woolf

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

O friendship, how piercing are your darts - there, there, again there. — Virginia Woolf

I have been longing for inner consistency. — Virginia Woolf

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified. — Virginia Woolf

He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life. — Virginia Woolf

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. — Virginia Woolf

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. — Virginia Woolf

The summer is put away folded up in the drawer with other summers. — Virginia Woolf

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them. — Virginia Woolf

I am clouded and bruised with the print of minds and faces and things so subtle that they have smell, colour, texture, substance, but no name. — Virginia Woolf

Life and a lover — Virginia Woolf

He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams. — Virginia Woolf

This I say is the present moment; this is the first day of the summer holidays. This is part of the emerging monster to whom we are attached. — Virginia Woolf

It was one of those unclassified affections of which there are so many. — Virginia Woolf

The truer the facts the better the fiction. — Virginia Woolf

Everyone has friends who were killed in the War. Everyone gives up something when they marry. — Virginia Woolf

So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living. — Virginia Woolf

I always wish that you could marry everybody who wants to marry you. — Virginia Woolf

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful. — 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