Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 27

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• Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

  Virginia Woolf

  Money, Writing, Novel

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

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• About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

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  Water, Half, Ships

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• But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

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  Sea, Deeper

  Virginia Woolf (1982). “To the Lighthouse: The Original Holograph Draft”

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• Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.

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  Six, Feels, Forty

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

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• But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily…he could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel.

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  Perfect, Brain, Example

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.88, Broadview Press

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• So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

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  Morning, Clouds, Wind

  Virginia Woolf (2006). “To the Lighthouse”, p.27, OUP Oxford

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• How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?

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  Thinking, People, Work Out

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1004, Delphi Classics

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• The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.

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  Thinking, Treasure, Common

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.

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  Wall, Men, Cells

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.192, Broadview Press

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• The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.

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  Wall, Garden, Light

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• O how blessed it would be never to marry, or grow old; but to spend one's life innocently and indifferently among the trees and rivers which alone can keep one cool and childlike in the midst of the troubles of the world!

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  Blessed, Rivers, Childhood

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1973, Delphi Classics

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• Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual coming of death. As people describe love. To note every symptom of failure: but why failure? To treat age as an experience that is different from the others; and to detect every one of the gradual stages towards death which is a tremendous experience, an not as unconscious, at least in its approaches, as death is.

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  Love, People, Interesting

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4523, Delphi Classics

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• What could be more serious than the love of man for woman, what more commanding, more impressive, bearing in its bosom the seeds of death; at the same time these lovers, these people entering into illusion glittering eyed, must be danced round with mockery, decorated with garlands.

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  Love, Men, People

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.319, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

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  Hero, Men, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1012, Delphi Classics

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• The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

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  Children, Book, Reading

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life's bare as a bone.

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  Life, Bones

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• Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

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  Brave, Letters, Lost

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.783, Delphi Classics

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• They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.

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  Travel, Sky, Dying

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

  Virginia Woolf

  Literature, Rooms, Essays

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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• Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.

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  Stronger, Position

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• She felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition had become so thin that practically (the feeling was one of relief and happiness) it was all one stream.

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  Wall, Doors, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1066, Delphi Classics

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• First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

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  Air, Circles, Musical

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• What a comfort is friendship in this world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Comfort, World, This World

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• ... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.

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  Animal, Doubt, Capacity

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4383, Delphi Classics

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• writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

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  Writing, Profound, Pleasure

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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