Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 29

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• Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

  Virginia Woolf

  Death, Tombstone, Memorial

  The Waves (1931)

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• Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Confidence, Sex

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• Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Home, House

  The Common Reader "Lady Dorothy Nevill" (1925) See Crisp 2; Hemans 3

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• It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.

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  Food, Cooking, Novelists

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2616, Delphi Classics

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• I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.

  Virginia Woolf

  Letters, Puppy, Bones

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

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• To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Hands, Together

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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• It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

  Virginia Woolf

  Vision, Written

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• You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Hands, Bridges

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.83, Oxford University Press

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• Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

  Virginia Woolf

  Hate, Women, Heart

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• One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.

  Virginia Woolf

  Miracle, Ordinary, Levels

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1126, Delphi Classics

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• If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Half, Paradox

  Virginia Woolf, Jan Morris (1993). “Travels with Virginia Woolf”, Random House (UK)

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Stronger, Position

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Profound, Pleasure

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

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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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• 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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Doors, Hands

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

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• He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Loneliness, Lying

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.387, Wordsworth Editions

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• I press to my centre, and find there is something there.

  Virginia Woolf

  Centre, Presses

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• What a comfort is friendship in this world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Comfort, World, This World

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• The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Wall, Eye

  Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.119, Wordsworth Editions

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• He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree to be; or, for image followed image, it was the back of a great horse that he was riding, or the deck of a tumbling ship -- it was anything indeed, so long as it was hard, for he felt the need of something which he could attach his floating heart to; the heart that tugged at his side; the heart that seemed filled with spiced and amorous gales every evening about this time when he walked out.

  Virginia Woolf

  Summer, Horse, Heart

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Orlando”, p.8, Lettere Animate Editore

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• Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Domes, Helping

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.611, Wordsworth Editions

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• Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fire, Tragedy, Heroic

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.140, Virginia Woolf

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• Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

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  Luxury, Isolation, Knows

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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• The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sunshine, Fog, Weather

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• Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange.

  Virginia Woolf

  Struggle, Mean, Triumph

  Virginia Woolf (2017). “Essays Virginia Woolf”, p.446, Random House

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