Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 13

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• It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

  Virginia Woolf

  Spring, Writing, Practice

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.344, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my attention. I would never cease to look around me and observe myself in relation to nature: either crystal clear skies and sun-melting afternoons, or foggy winter days and weirdly tinted nights. I would never cease to dream and stand by the window, ready to let the diversity of life pass freely through my skin; courageous enough to believe I stood a chance in devouring each shade of sensation. Or perhaps, immensely foolish to plainly - believe at all.

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  Dream, Believe, Winter

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• It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

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  Spiritual, Mind, Intimacy

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.37, Wordsworth Editions

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• But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Lying, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Years - Including a Short Biography of the Author”, p.282, Read Books Ltd

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• If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dies, Ifs

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.184, Broadview Press

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• It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Choices, Living My Life

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• I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.

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  Fall, Sea, White

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.152, Virginia Woolf

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• The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2649, Delphi Classics

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• Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Dark, Squares

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

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• All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side.

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  Sex, School, Feminist

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.628, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

  Virginia Woolf

  Gifted, One Time

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.136, Virginia Woolf

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• Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

  Virginia Woolf

  Creativity, Order, Creative

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

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  Art, Philosophy, Writing

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.21, Oxford University Press

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• To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

  Virginia Woolf

  Father, Work, Slavery

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.173

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• All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

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  Flower, Fall, Mind

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.604, Wordsworth Editions

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• Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Writing, Reflection

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read.

  Virginia Woolf

  Counting, Havens, Wet

  "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf".

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• Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

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  Sleep, People, Want

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1789, Delphi Classics

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• One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

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  Birthday, Time, Maturity

  Virginia Woolf (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918”, Chatto & Windus

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• Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

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  Truth, Business, Mean

  "Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid".

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• Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.

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  Inspirational, Pain, Women

  "A Moment's Liberty". Book by Virginia Woolf, Wednesday 15 September, 1926, 1990.

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• Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dust, Arches, Meteors

  Virginia Woolf (2006). “Orlando (Annotated): A Biography”, p.146, HMH

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• All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence.

  Virginia Woolf

  Character, Atmosphere, Mind

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2982, Delphi Classics

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• I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

  Virginia Woolf

  Optimistic, Writing, Usual

  Virginia Woolf (1978). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol.2, 1920-1924”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.

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  Writing, Reality, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2687, Delphi Classics

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