Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 6

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

  Virginia Woolf

  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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• Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Interesting, Feminism

  A Room of One's Own ch. 2 (1929)

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• Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Light, Treasure

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “Monday or Tuesday”, p.5, Virginia Woolf

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• 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

  Art, Mystery, Danger

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• Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence

  Virginia Woolf

  Party, Giving, Silence

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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?

  Virginia Woolf

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

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

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• 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

  Illusion, Praise, Catastrophe

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.572, Wordsworth Editions

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• We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

  Virginia Woolf

  Peace, War, Finding The One

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.366

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Feelings, One Day, Mrs Dalloway

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.132, Wordsworth Editions

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• Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Winter, Voice

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Night and Day”, p.157, Virginia Woolf

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• When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wise, Mother, Writing

  A Room of One's Own ch. 3 (1929)

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• I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

  Virginia Woolf

  Phrases, Wander, Single Word

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.13, Collector's Library

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• Words belong to each other.

  Virginia Woolf

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.88, Oxford University Press

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Discovery, Miracle, Perpetual

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

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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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Light, Soul, Waterfalls

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• To be silent; to be alone. 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

  Being Alone, Darkness, Invisible

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.296, Wordsworth Editions

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• Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.

  Virginia Woolf

  Frail

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.69, Virginia Woolf

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• For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.

  Virginia Woolf

  Truth, Light, Giving

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.95, Oxford University Press

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• I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

  Virginia Woolf

  Divine, Bookcases

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.184, Virginia Woolf

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• My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

  Virginia Woolf

  Happiness, Mind, Way

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Still, life had a way of adding day to day

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  Way, Still Life, Stills

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.96, Broadview Press

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• With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

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  Eye, Tragedy, Married

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.902, Delphi Classics

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• When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

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  Stars, Matter, Affair

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Night and Day”, p.170, Virginia Woolf

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• I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

  Virginia Woolf

  Brain, Rooms

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4339, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Shade, Too Short

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.903, Delphi Classics

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