Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 10

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• Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Penalties

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.371, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

  Virginia Woolf

  Funny, Humor, Programming

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Silence, Needs, Done

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1377, Delphi Classics

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• To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Imagination, Perception

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.375, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

  Virginia Woolf

  Attitude, Mean, Occupation

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.80, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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• 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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fashion, Views, Clothes

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

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• Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.

  Virginia Woolf

  Soul, Atmosphere, Earth

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.119, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, Mind, Looks

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.859, Wordsworth Editions

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• This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

  Virginia Woolf

  Peace, War, Women

  A Room of One's Own ch. 4 (1929)

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• Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Wine, Sleep

  "The Common Reader". Book by Virginia Woolf, 1925.

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• Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Soul, Secret

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.122, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.

  Virginia Woolf

  Library, Sanctuary, Spirit

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2597, Delphi Classics

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• How remorseless life is!

  Virginia Woolf

  Life Is, Remorseless

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.175, Wordsworth Editions

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• But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

  Virginia Woolf

  Together, Phrases, Territory

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.9, Virginia Woolf

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• Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Real, World

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• Well, we must wait for the future to show.

  Virginia Woolf

  Patience, Waiting, Shows

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.98, Virginia Woolf

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• Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, People, Giving

  Georg Brand, Virginia Woolf, Koizumi Yakumo, Hernández Felisberto (2017). “ON READING: Le plaisir de lire”, p.34, Pieffe Edizioni via PublishDrive

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• Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Genius, World, Fool

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• I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Age, Found

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.521, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Writing, Attachment

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• Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

  Virginia Woolf

  Self, Perception, Consciousness

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• Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

  Virginia Woolf

  Simple, Style, Use

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

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• I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Thinking, Views

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