Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 2

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• Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

  Virginia Woolf

  Freedom, Women, Reading

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.610, Wordsworth Editions

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• A light here required a shadow there.

  Virginia Woolf

  Light, Shadow

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.290, Wordsworth Editions

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• These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Believe, Optimistic

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

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• I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Healing, Delight

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.48, Delphi Classics

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• For now she need not think of anybody. She coud 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. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.

  Virginia Woolf

  Adventure, Thinking, Attachment

  Virginia Woolf (1937). “To the Lighthouse”

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• If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Honesty, Lying

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3151, Delphi Classics

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• But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Broken

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.148, Collector's Library

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• And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees
  and changing leaves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Tree

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.331, Wordsworth Editions

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• I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Silence, Sublime

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• If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.

  Virginia Woolf

  Successful, Night, Sight

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reading, Giving, Advice

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2597, Delphi Classics

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• For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

  Virginia Woolf

  Musician, Done, Film

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.175, Oxford University Press

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• The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dark, Illumination, Miracle

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.361, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sky, Mood

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• Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

  Virginia Woolf

  Incessant, Solitary, Confinement

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.341, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Know How, Knows

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.167, Lulu Press, Inc

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• No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

  Virginia Woolf

  Believe, Passion, Cutting

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Coffee, Sea, Knives

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.253, Collector's Library

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• But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

  Virginia Woolf

  Happiness, Past, Thinking

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• Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

  Virginia Woolf

  Motivational, Women, Power

  A Room of One's Own ch. 2 (1929)

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• She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

  Virginia Woolf

  Beach, Eye, Blue

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “To the Lighthouse”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Thinking, Names

  "A Moment's Liberty". Book by Virginia Woolf, 1990.

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• It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Simple, Womanly

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.136

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• Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

  Virginia Woolf

  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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