Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 12

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

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  Running, Fingers

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

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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.

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  Simple, Style, Use

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

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• For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is it to be in love?" she demanded, after a long silence; each word as it came into being seemed to shove itself out into an unknown sea. Hypnotized by the wings of the butterfly, and awed by the discovery of a terrible possibility in life, she sat for some time longer. When the butterfly flew away, she rose, and within, her two books beneath her arm returned again, much as a soldier prepares for battle.

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  Book, Butterfly, Discovery

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.157, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

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  Reading, Delight, Chiefs

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

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

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  Boards

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

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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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• . . . 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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