Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 14

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

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  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.

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

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  Father, Work, Slavery

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

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• The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now— James looked at the Lighthouse. He could see the white-washed rocks; the tower, stark and straight; he could see that it was barred with black and white; he could see windows in it; he could even see washing spread on the rocks to dry. So that was the Lighthouse, was it? No, the other was also the Lighthouse. For nothing was simply one thing. The other Lighthouse was true too.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Black And White, Rocks

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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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• 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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, School, Feminist

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

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

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  Optimistic, Writing, Usual

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

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• But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

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  Believe, Lips, Opinion

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.187, Lulu Press, Inc

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• For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

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  Years, Mind, Body

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.834, Wordsworth Editions

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• Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.

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  Years, Six, Form

  "Orlando: A Biography".

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• The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping.

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  Horse, Moving, Fall

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.109, Virginia Woolf

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• I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards -- their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble -- the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when He sees us coming with our books under our arms, "Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.

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  Book, Reading, Names

  Virginia Woolf (1972). “Collected essays”

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• Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

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  Art, Writing, Divine

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

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• Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.

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  Fall, Order, Mind

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.122, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.

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  Fall, Doors, Feet

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.30, Virginia Woolf

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• For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.

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  Truth, Light, Giving

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.95, Oxford University Press

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• I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life; it is or will become a revelation of some order; it is a token of some real thing behind appearances; and I make it real by putting it into words. It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole; this wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hurt, Pain, Children

  Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Schulkind (1976). “Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings”, Sussex University Press

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