Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 10

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• Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

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  Life, Sleep, Insomnia

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.64, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

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  Fashion, Views, Clothes

  Virginia Woolf (1995). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.

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  June, London, Moments

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.4, Broadview Press

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• Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

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  Poetry, Poet, Beacons Of Light

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.590, Wordsworth Editions

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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.

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  Art, Mystery, Danger

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• It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

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  Spiritual, Mind, Intimacy

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.37, Wordsworth Editions

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• Soup is cuisines kindest course

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  Soup, Cuisine, Courses

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• There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

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  Serenity, Looks, Innocence

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1146, Delphi Classics

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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?

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  Illusion, Praise, Catastrophe

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

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

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  Frail

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

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• a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing, so that nothing may break the illusion in which he is living - so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings around, darts, dashes, and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.

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  Book, Writing, Discovery

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3994, Delphi Classics

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• It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on any grievance; to plead even with justice any cause; in any way to speak consciously as a woman. And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death. It ceases to be fertilized.

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  Stress, Simple, Men

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.136

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• more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

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  Power, Dominion, Imposition

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4295, Delphi Classics

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• As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

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  Hate, Writing, Letters

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”

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• By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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  Dream, Waking, Life Is

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.

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  Echoes, Self, Sea

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1446, Delphi Classics

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• I see through most people; I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.

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  People

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• Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

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  Real, Character, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2017). “Moments Of Being”, p.100, Random House

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• You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

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  School, Boys, Order

  Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (1977). “1920-1924”, Chatto & Windus

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• Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

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  Artist, Criticism, Want

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• literature is the record of our discontent.

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  Records, Literature, Discontent

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2014, Delphi Classics

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• But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

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  Being In Love, People, Strange

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.873, Delphi Classics

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• They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.

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  Effort, Mind

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.168, Wordsworth Editions

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• I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

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  Writing, Joy

  "A Writer's Diary".

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• We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—

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  Spirit, Divine, Mouthpiece

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.143, Oxford University Press, USA

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