Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 29

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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.

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  Miracle, Ordinary, Levels

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

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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.

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  Life, Confidence, Sex

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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?

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  Hate, Women, Heart

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

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  Centre, Presses

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• For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects ; and sounds very remote and then very close ; flesh being gashed and blood sparting, a joint suddenly twisted - beneath all of which appears something very important, yet remote, to be just held in solitude.” — Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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  Pain, Virginia, Blood

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.763, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

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  Past, Choices, Age

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.27, Oxford University Press

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• They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say.

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  Ocean, Night, Details

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.57, Virginia Woolf

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• Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

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  Olivia, Chloe, May

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.106

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• There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.

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  Eye, Want Something, Knowing

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1069, Delphi Classics

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• Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though I met you once I think, on board a ship going to Africa), we can talk freely. The illusion is upon me that something adheres for a moment, has roundness, weight, depth, is completed. This, for the moment, seems to be my life. If it were possible, I would hand it you entire. I would break it off as one breaks off a bunch of grapes. I would say, "Take it. This is my life.

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  Thinking, Break Off, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.175, Virginia Woolf

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• No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

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  Moments, Sideways, Mark

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.166, Tyché

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• Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.

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  Darkness, Black, Tears

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• After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

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  World, Mrs Dalloway, Ends

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.934, Delphi Classics

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• How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.

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  Problem, Poet, Lays

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4047, Delphi Classics

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• I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

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  Feet, Long, Broken

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.176, Virginia Woolf

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• But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.

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  Animal, Simple, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.

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  Spring, Done, Toss

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.341, Wordsworth Editions

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• And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power as she came across the room, to make the moon, which he detested, rise at Bourton on the terrace in the summer sky.

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  Summer, Moon, Sky

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.82, Broadview Press

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• What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

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  Hard Work, Writing, Pages

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”

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• There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

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  Teacher, Artist, People

  Virginia Woolf (1976). “The question of things happening”, Vintage

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• For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn.

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  Swings, People, Dawn

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.972, Delphi Classics

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• In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.

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  Shadow, Life Is, Embrace

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.766, Delphi Classics

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• Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

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  Art, Order, Fiction

  Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee (2000). “A room of one's own and other essays”

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• At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

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  Sex, Doe, Opinion

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own (Annotated)”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

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  Girl, Men, Balls

  To the Lighthouse (1927) pt. 1, ch. 13

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