Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 11

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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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• I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.

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  Thinking, Facts, Want

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2001). “The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction”, p.5, Oxford University Press, USA

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

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  Penalties

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

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• What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.

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  Heart, Giving, Glimpse

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This is it”? My depression is a harassed feeling. I’m looking: but that’s not it — that’s not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?

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  Discovery, Hands, Feelings

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

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  Silence, Needs, Done

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

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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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• 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.

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  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.

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  Divine, Bookcases

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

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• Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

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  Hate, Three, Plies

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Between the Acts”, p.64, Virginia Woolf

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

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Dream, Wine, Sleep

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

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• And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.

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  Writing, Demand, May

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.530, Wordsworth Editions

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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.

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  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.

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  Library, Sanctuary, Spirit

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

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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.

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  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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• How remorseless life is!

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  Life Is, Remorseless

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

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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.

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  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.

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  Self, Perception, Consciousness

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

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  Age, Found

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

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

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  Art, Real, World

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