Virginia Woolf quotes - page 5

And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power as she came across the room, to make the moon, which he detested, rise at Bourton on the terrace in the summer sky. (Virginia Woolf)
I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers - the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that. View quote
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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. View quote
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Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves. View quote
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Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody. View quote
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A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning. View quote
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The artist after all is a solitary being. View quote
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I mean, what is a woman? I assure you, I do not know. I do not believe that you know. I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill. View quote
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I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it. View quote
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Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever. View quote
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While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace. (Virginia Woolf)
All extremes of feeling are allied with madness. View quote
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Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy. View quote
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She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach. View quote
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Fear no more, says the heart... View quote
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For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn... View quote
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He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink... View quote
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No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. View quote
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Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes. View quote
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is... at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away... View quote
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? (Virginia Woolf)
Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night. View quote
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When a subject is highly controversial - and any question about sex is that - one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. View quote
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves. View quote
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I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married. View quote
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Virginia Woolf

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

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