Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 12

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• . . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

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  Solitude, Clumsiness

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.407, Wordsworth Editions

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• To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.

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  Peace, Looks, Lasts

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• I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.

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  Flames, Gold, Icicles

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.742, Wordsworth Editions

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• A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

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  Self, Six, Literature

  Orlando ch. 6 (1928)

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• Life would split apart without letters.

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  Splits, Letters

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• How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?

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  Mean, Reality, Feelings

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

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• When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

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  Writing, Darkness, Existence

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.97, Virginia Woolf

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• Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

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  Two, Silence, Chance

  Virginia Woolf (1992). “The voyage out”, p.82, Рипол Классик

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• Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

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  Reading, Thinking, Heaven

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”

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• One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

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  Believe

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

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• At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.

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  Real, Book, Transition

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.114, Delphi Classics

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• The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

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  Passion, Maps, London

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.70, Wordsworth Editions

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

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  Feelings, One Day, Mrs Dalloway

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

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• Marvelous are the innocent.

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  Innocent, Marvelous

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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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• There'll be oceans of talk and emotions without end.

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  Ocean, Emotion, Ends

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1888-1912 (Virginia Stephen)”, Harcourt on Demand

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• The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

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  Writing, Thinking, Effort

  Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt

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• it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams

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  Dream, Strange, Chaos

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.235, Collector's Library

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• Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

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  Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.228, Collector's Library

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• Life stand still here.

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  Crafts, Stills

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.361, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.

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  Reality, Tears, Transparency

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• It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

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  People, Trying, Hints

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.734, Delphi Classics

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• War is not women's history.

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  Inspiring, War, Empowering

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• It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

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  Birthday, Hard Work, Age

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.26, Oxford University Press

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• I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?

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  Hate, Worship You, Safety

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.218, Delphi Classics

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