Virginia Woolf quotes - page 15

All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others. (Virginia Woolf)

some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all the forms of life; other are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.

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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

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... clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

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Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.

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There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?

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... she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

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anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

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

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We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.

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for women live much more in the past... they attach themselves to places. (Virginia Woolf)

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

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

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When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.

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I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

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A State of Mind. Woke up perhaps at 3. Oh its beginning it coming – the horror – physically like a painful wave swelling about the heart – tossing me up. I'm unhappy unhappy! Down – God, I wish I were dead.

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The trumpeters, ranging themselves side by side in order, blow one terrific blast: - 'THE TRUTH! at which Orlando woke.

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But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything. Little words that broke up the thought and dismembered it said nothing. 'About life, about death; about Mrs Ramsay.

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Mrs Swithin took her knitting from the table. 'Did you feel,' she asked, 'what he said: we act different parts but are the same?' 'Yes,' Isa answered. 'No,' she added. It was Yes, No. Yes, yes, yes, the tide rushed out embracing. No, no, no, it contracted.

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I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.

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Life stand still here, Mrs. Ramsay said. (Virginia Woolf)

Literature is open to everybody. I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass. 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.

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Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.

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Unless I am myself, I am nobody.

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Life is difficult; facts uncompromising; and the passage to that fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder in darkness, one that needs, above all, courage, truth, and the power to endure.

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Virginia Woolf

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Occupation: English Author
Born: January 25, 1882
Died: March 28, 1941
Quotes count: 500
Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf

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