Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 5

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• The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

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  Ordinary, Extraordinary, Depends

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.133, Oxford University Press

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• I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

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  People, Soul, Unhappy

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1977). “A change of perspective”, Vintage

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• My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

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  Passion, Reflection, Brain

  Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1979). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”, Harvest Books

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• Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

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  Looks, Littles, Pavement

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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  Life, Dream, Truth

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.583, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thinking is my fighting.

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  Healing, Fighting, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.28, Oxford University Press, USA

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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.

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  Animal, Self, Leader

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932”, Chatto & Windus

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• If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

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  Daughter, Mother, Brother

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Three Guineas”, p.51, Virginia Woolf

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• I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

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  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  "The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1920-1924".

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• Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

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  Passion, Yield, Rooms

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage

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• All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.

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  Feelings, Madness, Extremes

  "Orlando: A Biography".

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• I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

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  Giving, Solitude, Want

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.38, Virginia Woolf

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• For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

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  Pleasure, Share, Relish

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2283, Delphi Classics

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• Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

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  Numbness, People, Soul

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2280, Delphi Classics

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• We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

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  Fragments, Reconcile, Seasons

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.231, Broadview Press

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• I will dream today; for I must unscrew my head somehow.

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  Dream, Today

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• She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

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  Light, Soul, Waterfalls

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• All extremes are dangerous.

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  Moderation, Dangerous, Extremes

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2281, Delphi Classics

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• Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

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  Inspirational, Believe, Belief

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2001). “The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction”, p.53, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Language is wine upon the lips.

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  Wine, Tongue, Lips

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• I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Time

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Chatto & Windus

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• ... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

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  Discovery, Miracle, Perpetual

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “The Years”, p.329, Booklassic

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• Thoughts without words… Can that be?

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• If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?

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  Mean, Reality, Feelings

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.445, Delphi Classics

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• The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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  Women, Truth Is, Completeness

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.84, Oxford University Press, USA

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