Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 16

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• Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.

  Virginia Woolf

  Arrogant, Assuming, Commoners

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.102, Oxford University Press, USA

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• . . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.

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  London, Walks

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

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

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  Flower, Pages, Shakespeare's Sonnets

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

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• women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.

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  Dog, Stress, Writing

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.141

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• Use words that soak up life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Use

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• There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.

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  Sadness, People, Shadow

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2261, Delphi Classics

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• You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?

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  Christian, Garden, Bells

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

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• I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!

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  Morning, Lying, Self

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

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  Men, Envy, Desire

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.16, Oxford University Press

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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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• 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.

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  Character, Mean, Thinking

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

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• I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

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  Suicide, Voice, Mad

  Suicide note to her husband, 18 Mar. 1941

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• It is the duty of the writer to describe.

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  Duty

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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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• 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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• The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

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  Essence, Giving, Mind

  "The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1918-1924".

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