Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 11

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• Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Fingers

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.24, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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  Tragedy, Hungry, Hours

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.140, Virginia Woolf

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• Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.

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  Book, Sleep, Talking

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.193, Broadview Press

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• If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.

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  Reality, Men, World

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.149

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• But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.

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  Solitude, Undoing

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1411, Delphi Classics

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• What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

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  Art, Believe, Skills

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.142, Oxford University Press

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• If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

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  Writing, Together, Crafts

  Virginia Woolf (2006). “To the Lighthouse”, p.4, OUP Oxford

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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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• Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

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  Good Night, Winter, Sound

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “Jacob's Room”, p.46, Booklassic

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• The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.

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  Artist, Order, Effort

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• Soup is cuisines kindest course

  Virginia Woolf

  Soup, Cuisine, Courses

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• Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

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  Wise, Men, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.23, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.

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  Children, Average, Numbers

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “Virginia Woolf, women and writing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

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  Funny, Art, Pain

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.756, Wordsworth Editions

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• Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.

  Virginia Woolf

  Boards

  Virginia Woolf (1992). “A woman's essays: selected essays, volume one”

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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.

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  Phrases, Wander, Single Word

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

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• Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

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  Names, Sometimes, Grain

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.59, Virginia Woolf

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• I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for their inspection. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends, I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken - I to whom there is no beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely.

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  Lonely, Heart, Moon

  Virginia Woolf (1976). “The Waves”, Chatto & Windus

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• We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life - hers is that of a country parson's daughter; but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that, as we say in real life, they have only to open the door to make themselves felt.

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  War, Character, Doors

  "The Common Reader: First series".

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• But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

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  Facts, Impossible, Nevertheless

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.310, Wordsworth Editions

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• They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

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  Children, Growing Up, Long

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.277, Wordsworth Editions

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• The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

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  Mind, Fluttering, Capricious

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

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  Heart, Body, Want

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.175, Virginia Woolf

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• Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.

  Virginia Woolf

  Friendship, Women, Book

  "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf".

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• So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.

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  Journey, Vivid, Illness

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.380, Wordsworth Editions

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