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It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.
— 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 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
. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.
— Virginia Woolf
Life's bare as a bone.
— 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
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
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
The words issuing from her lips like crumbs of dry biscuit.
— 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
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
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
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
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— 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 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
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 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
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
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
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