Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 16

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• O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!

  Virginia Woolf

  Flower, Pages, Shakespeare's Sonnets

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.64, Virginia Woolf

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• I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

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  Writing, Thinking, Species

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.286, HMH

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• The poet is always our contemporary.

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  Poet, Contemporary

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932”, Chatto & Windus

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• every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works, yet we require critics to explain the one and biographers to expound the other. That time hangs heavy on people's hands is the only explanation of the monstrous growth.

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  Hands, People, Soul

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.499, Wordsworth Editions

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• Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.

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  Life, Beats

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.12, Virginia Woolf

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• I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.

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  Water, Save Me, Rough

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.94, ShandonPress

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• Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

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  Fiction, Burning, Slumber

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own (Annotated)”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.

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  Thinking, Design, Half

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3037, Delphi Classics

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• There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

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  Fashion, Heart, Views

  Virginia Woolf (1995). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

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  Writing, People, Ask Me

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• That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now.

  Virginia Woolf

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (1932). “A Letter to a Young Poet”

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• What a lark! What a plunge!

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  Larks, Plunge

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.45, Broadview Press

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• It is the duty of the writer to describe.

  Virginia Woolf

  Duty

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• We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

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  Want, Feels, Humans

  "Complete Works of Virginia Woolf".

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• If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to being hopeless, though: only the spectacle is a profoundly strange one; and as the current answers don’t do, one has to grope for a new one, and the process of discarding the old, when one is by no means certain what to put in their place, is a sad one.

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  Mean, Thinking, People

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• It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became one; felt they knew one, in a sense were one; felt an irrational tenderness thus (she looked at that long steady light) as for oneself.

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  Flower, Light, Long

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1031, Delphi Classics

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• You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

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  Thinking, Thank You Sister, Colour

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• So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.

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  Life, Children, Silver

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4395, Delphi Classics

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• It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.

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  Dream, Silly, Unhappy

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.83, Broadview Press

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• It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

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  Art, Women, Men

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.136, Oxford University Press

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• Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.

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  Happiness, Littles, Strings

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Chatto & Windus

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• Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

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  Fall, Toss, Poet

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “The Waves”, p.51, Booklassic

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• But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

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  Likes, Enthusiasm, Mood

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.32, Wordsworth Editions

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• With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.

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  Past, Feet, Giving

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.110, Virginia Woolf

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• I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

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  Spring, Autumn, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.102, Wordsworth Editions

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