Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 17

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• The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Important, Too Much

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4424, Delphi Classics

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• Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Sight, Order

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

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• Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Blow, Blue

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.165, Virginia Woolf

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• I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that.

  Virginia Woolf

  Jobs, Clever, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.755, Wordsworth Editions

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• He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Memories, Exquisite

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1058, Delphi Classics

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• She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Past, White, Long

  Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.118, Wordsworth Editions

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• Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

  Virginia Woolf

  Vision, Laying Down, Lighthouse

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1130, Delphi Classics

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• It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hatred, Soul, Monsters

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.12, Broadview Press

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• Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Adventure, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.311, OUP Oxford

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• Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.

  Virginia Woolf

  Names, America, Gentleman

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1140, Delphi Classics

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• The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

  Virginia Woolf

  Boots, Stones, Kicks

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.33, Tyché

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• I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Numbness, Break

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.712, Wordsworth Editions

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• As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Fall, Writing

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• For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Solitude, Needs

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.58, Tyché

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• I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Diversity, Poetry

  A Room of One's Own ch. 3 (1929)

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• Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Age, Aging

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

  Virginia Woolf

  Lying, Semblance

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.119, Virginia Woolf

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• Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Prose And Poetry, Poetry Is

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.61, Lulu Press, Inc

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• To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

  Virginia Woolf

  Happiness, Men, World

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.44, Virginia Woolf

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• The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

  Virginia Woolf

  Flower, Practice, Rose

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.411, Wordsworth Editions

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• For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Reading, Writing

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.46, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

  Virginia Woolf

  Glowing, Romance, Together

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A moment's liberty: the shorter diary”, Vintage

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• All the months are crude experiments,
  out of which the perfect September is made.

  Virginia Woolf

  Perfect, Months, September

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage

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• In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Men, June

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.852, Delphi Classics

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• It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

  Virginia Woolf

  Moving, Mind, Legs

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.571, Wordsworth Editions

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