Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 13

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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.

  Virginia Woolf

  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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Self, Six, Literature

  Orlando ch. 6 (1928)

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Darkness, Existence

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

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• Life would split apart without letters.

  Virginia Woolf

  Splits, Letters

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Mean, Reality, Feelings

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

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Reading, Thinking, Heaven

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

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

  Virginia Woolf

  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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Innocent, Marvelous

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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?

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Maps, London

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

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

  Virginia Woolf

  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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• 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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• 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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reality, Tears, Transparency

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• Life stand still here.

  Virginia Woolf

  Crafts, Stills

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

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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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• 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.

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  Life, Lying, Thinking

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

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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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• War is not women's history.

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  Inspiring, War, Empowering

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

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  Dies, Ifs

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

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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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• 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.

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  Spring, Writing, Practice

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

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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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