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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.

Virginia Woolf

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.

Virginia Woolf

Likes, Enthusiasm, Mood

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

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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.

Virginia Woolf

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.

Virginia Woolf

Happiness, Littles, Strings

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

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

Virginia Woolf

Spring, Autumn, Thinking

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

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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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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

Virginia Woolf

Writing, Voice, Secret

Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Born: January 25, 1882
Died: March 28, 1941
Occupation: Writer
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