Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 26

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• In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Air, Voice

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

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• The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.65

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• Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

  Virginia Woolf

  Clothes, Symbols

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

  Virginia Woolf

  War, Men, History

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.630, Wordsworth Editions

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• The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

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  War, Fighting, Clouds

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf - Including a Short Biography of the Author”, p.6, Read Books Ltd

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• Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless.

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  Fall, Desert, Human Nature

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.190, Wordsworth Editions

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• The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

  Virginia Woolf

  Notebook, Teacher, Women

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.565, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is no use trying to sum people up.

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  People, Trying, Use

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.734, Delphi Classics

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• There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

  Virginia Woolf

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• Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

  Virginia Woolf

  Stories, Able, Life Is

  Virginia Woolf (1976). “The Waves”, Chatto & Windus

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• The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

  Virginia Woolf

  Letters, Our Time

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3541, Delphi Classics

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• To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

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  Unthinkable, Oneself

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1423, Delphi Classics

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• madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hurt, Men, Minutes

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Orlando”, p.162, OUP Oxford

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• As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

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  Writing, Lava, Madness

  Virginia Woolf (1978). “A Reflection of the Other Person”, Chatto & Windus

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• One must love everything.

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  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.100, Wordsworth Editions

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• ... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?

  Virginia Woolf

  Country, Air, People

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”

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• The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

  Virginia Woolf

  Witty, Silence, Ornaments

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• You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures.

  Virginia Woolf

  Water, Ingredients, Lectures

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.361, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the

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  Art, Lying, Creativity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.627, Wordsworth Editions

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• I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.

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  Mean, Numbers, People

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”, Harcourt

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• Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.

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  Heart, Soul, Shadow

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• [Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

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  Writing, Thinking, Occupation

  Diary, 8 Mar. 1941.Woolf committed suicide on 28 Mar. 1941.

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• The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, World

  "Orlando".

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• I have had my vision.

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  Vision

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.161, Virginia Woolf

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• Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

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  Witty, Night, Years

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.495, Wordsworth Editions

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