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Virginia Woolf quotes: Was she not forgetting again how strongly she influenced people? Was she not forgetting again how strongly she influenced people?
Virginia Woolf quotes: The way to write well is to live intensely. The way to write well is to live intensely.
Virginia Woolf quotes: I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony. I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.
Virginia Woolf quotes: I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people. I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? 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 quotes: It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for. It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for.
Virginia Woolf quotes: The strange thing on looking back was the purity, the integrity of her feeling for Sally. It was not like one's feeling for a man. The strange thing on looking back was the purity, the integrity of her feeling for Sally. It was not like one's feeling for a man.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Alone, over my dead fire, I tend to see the thin places in my own stories. Alone, over my dead fire, I tend to see the thin places in my own stories.
Virginia Woolf quotes: We carry with us the wonders we seek without us; there is all Africa and her prodigies in us. We carry with us the wonders we seek without us; there is all Africa and her prodigies in us.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
Virginia Woolf quotes: On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Virginia Woolf quotes: London thou art a jewel of jewels, & jasper of jocunditie -- music, talk, friendship, city views, books, publishing, something central & inexplicable. London thou art a jewel of jewels, & jasper of jocunditie -- music, talk, friendship, city views, books, publishing, something central & inexplicable.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day
Virginia Woolf quotes: So that was the end of that marriage. So that was the end of that marriage.
Virginia Woolf quotes: It is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people ... Think of things in themselves. It is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people ... Think of things in themselves.
Virginia Woolf quotes: I am not going to lie down and weep away a life of care. I am not going to lie down and weep away a life of care.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Virginia Woolf had to ask herself How can one weigh and shape dialogue till each sentence tears the shingles in the bottom of the reader's soul? Virginia Woolf had to ask herself How can one weigh and shape dialogue till each sentence tears the shingles in the bottom of the reader's soul?
Virginia Woolf quotes: Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living. Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.
Virginia Woolf quotes: He went on saying "No" to her, on principle, for he never yielded to a woman on account of her sex. He went on saying "No" to her, on principle, for he never yielded to a woman on account of her sex.
Virginia Woolf quotes: It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road. It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.
Virginia Woolf quotes: It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels. It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
Virginia Woolf quotes: I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Virginia Woolf quotes: There is nothing staid, nothing settled, in this universe. All is ripling,all is dancing; all is quickness and triumph. There is nothing staid, nothing settled, in this universe. All is ripling,
all is dancing; all is quickness and triumph.
Virginia Woolf quotes: How much, let me note, depends upon trousers; the intelligent head is entirely handicapped by shabby trousers. How much, let me note, depends upon trousers; the intelligent head is entirely handicapped by shabby trousers.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
Virginia Woolf quotes: I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you. I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person. Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.
Virginia Woolf quotes: I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity. I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.
Virginia Woolf quotes: This diminished the entire joy, the pure joy, of the two notes sounding together, and let the sound die on her ear now with a dismal flatness. This diminished the entire joy, the pure joy, of the two notes sounding together, and let the sound die on her ear now with a dismal flatness.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Time flaps on the mast-- Time flaps on the mast--
Virginia Woolf quotes: Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Virginia Woolf quotes: The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man. The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
Virginia Woolf quotes: I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose. I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Fending for oneself alone on a desert island is really no laughing matter. It is no crying one either Fending for oneself alone on a desert island is really no laughing matter. It is no crying one either
Virginia Woolf quotes: One must love everything. One must love everything.
Virginia Woolf quotes: For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth sayingwhat one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must simply say what one felt. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying
what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must simply say what one felt.
Virginia Woolf quotes: But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over the moment. But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over
the moment.
Virginia Woolf quotes: To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people's eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my self. To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people's eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my self.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Habits gradually change the face of one's life as time changes one's physical face; & one does not know it. Habits gradually change the face of one's life as time changes one's physical face; & one does not know it.
Virginia Woolf quotes: As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.
Virginia Woolf quotes: I love and I hate. I desire one thing only. I love and I hate. I desire one thing only.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are. Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.
Virginia Woolf quotes: No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion. No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.
Virginia Woolf quotes: [2] or directing a stern and momentous enterprise in some crisis of [2] or directing a stern and momentous enterprise in some crisis of
Virginia Woolf quotes: I'm convinced people are wrong when they say it's work that wears one; it's responsibility. I'm convinced people are wrong when they say it's work that wears one; it's responsibility.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Queer," I mused, "to see what we were thinking five years ago. Queer," I mused, "to see what we were thinking five years ago.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading. Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Women alone stir my imagination ... Women alone stir my imagination ...
Virginia Woolf quotes: It is the speed, the hot, molten effect, the lava flow of sentence into sentence that I need. It is the speed, the hot, molten effect, the lava flow of sentence into sentence that I need.
Virginia Woolf quotes: In this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow ... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds) In this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow ... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds)
Virginia Woolf quotes: Literature had taken possession even of her memories. She was matching him, presumably, with certain characters in the old novels ... Literature had taken possession even of her memories. She was matching him, presumably, with certain characters in the old novels ...
Virginia Woolf quotes: To leave a door shut that might be open is in my eyes some form of blasphemy. To leave a door shut that might be open is in my eyes some form of blasphemy.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring
Virginia Woolf quotes: The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think. The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Here, she felt, putting the spoon down, was the still space that lies about the heart of things, where one could move or rest ... Here, she felt, putting the spoon down, was the still space that lies about the heart of things, where one could move or rest ...
Virginia Woolf quotes: One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment. One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Life without illusion is a ghostly affair. Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.
Virginia Woolf quotes: It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface. It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.
Virginia Woolf quotes: One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Virginia Woolf quotes: I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.
Virginia Woolf quotes: A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning. A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.
Virginia Woolf quotes: There are some books that LIVE," she mused. "They are young with us, and they grow old with us. There are some books that LIVE," she mused. "They are young with us, and they grow old with us.
Virginia Woolf quotes: To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Virginia Woolf quotes: And then she said to herself, brandishing her sword at life, nonsense. And then she said to herself, brandishing her sword at life, nonsense.
Virginia Woolf quotes: You cannot, it seems, let children run about the streets. People who have seen them running wild in Russia say that the sight is not a pleasant one. You cannot, it seems, let children run about the streets. People who have seen them running wild in Russia say that the sight is not a pleasant one.
Virginia Woolf quotes: To Look Life in the Face ... !!! To Look Life in the Face ... !!!
Virginia Woolf quotes: Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art
Virginia Woolf quotes: Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
Virginia Woolf quotes: The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
Virginia Woolf quotes: She would not say of anyone that they were this or that. She would not say of anyone that they were this or that.
Virginia Woolf quotes: . . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest. . . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.
Virginia Woolf quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement ... I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement ...
Virginia Woolf quotes: Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision. Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.
Virginia Woolf quotes: to teach without zest is a crime. to teach without zest is a crime.
Virginia Woolf quotes: These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom. These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.
Virginia Woolf quotes: The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.
Virginia Woolf quotes: I'm not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness. I'm not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.
Virginia Woolf quotes: An immense pressure is on me. I cannot move without dislodging the weight of centuries. An immense pressure is on me. I cannot move without dislodging the weight of centuries.
Virginia Woolf quotes: To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action. To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
Virginia Woolf quotes: We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human. We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.
Virginia Woolf quotes: The body after long illness is languid, passive, receptive of sweetness, but too weak to contain it. The body after long illness is languid, passive, receptive of sweetness, but too weak to contain it.
Virginia Woolf quotes: The white spaces that lie between hour and hour The white spaces that lie between hour and hour
Virginia Woolf quotes: I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams. I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.
Virginia Woolf quotes: I am rooted, but I flow. I am rooted, but I flow.
Virginia Woolf quotes: To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable. To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.
Virginia Woolf quotes: Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life? Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?
Virginia Woolf quotes: But the Daily Mail isn't to be trusted," Jacob said to himself, looking about for something else to read. But the Daily Mail isn't to be trusted," Jacob said to himself, looking about for something else to read.
Virginia Woolf quotes: War is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male. War is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.
Virginia Woolf quotes: The brain is always thinking, but who is it who is thinking? The brain is always thinking, but who is it who is thinking?
Virginia Woolf quotes: I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms. I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
Virginia Woolf quotes: I prefer men to cauliflowers I prefer men to cauliflowers
Virginia Woolf quotes: I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words. I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.
Virginia Woolf quotes: It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Virginia Woolf quotes: I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass
Virginia Woolf quotes: She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged
Virginia Woolf quotes: They never saw him drawing pictures of them naked at their antics in his notebook. They never saw him drawing pictures of them naked at their antics in his notebook.
Virginia Woolf quotes: For such gestures one falls hopelessly in love for a lifetime For such gestures one falls hopelessly in love for a lifetime

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