Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 30

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

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  Happiness, Heart, Light

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “Monday or Tuesday”, p.5, Virginia Woolf

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• Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

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  Death, Men, Giving

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• Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.

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  Spiritual, Book, Writing

  Virginia Woolf (1991). “Paper Darts”

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• He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea.

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  Sweet, Memories, Voice

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.365, Wordsworth Editions

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• The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water, then we saw the huge blue-black bulk glide quietly under the raft right beneath our feet. It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft.

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  Time, Dark, Blue

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• Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

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  Time, Plot

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1933, Delphi Classics

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• All artists need a room of their own

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  Artist, Needs, Rooms

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• The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably yet quietly, she seemed like the champion of the rights of sleepers, like one of those spectral presences which rise in twilight in woods made of sky and branches. The solitary traveler, haunter of lanes, disturber of ferns, and devastator of hemlock plants, looking up, suddenly sees the giant figure at the end of the ride.

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  Twilight, Moving, Knitting

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.56, Broadview Press

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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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• We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that nothing of this sort matters; love is not proved thus, nor great achievements completed thus; so that we sport with the moment and preen our feathers in it lightly.

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  Sports, Love Is, Achievement

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.182, Oxford University Press

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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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• letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.

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  Lonely, Communication, Journey

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.68, Wordsworth Editions

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• As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his command Dickens made his books blaze up, not by tightening the plot or sharpening the wit, but by throwing another handful of people upon the fire.

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  Book, Character, Eye

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3106, Delphi Classics

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• How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

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  Ghost Stories, Feelings, Our Love

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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• Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.

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  Brain, Phrases, Mercy

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer, but only that shell of a person which is seen by other people - what an airless, shallow, bald, prominent world it becomes! A world not to be lived in. As we face each other in omnibuses and underground railways we are looking into the mirror that accounts for the vagueness, the gleam of glassiness, in our eyes.

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  Eye, Glasses, Mirrors

  Virginia Woolf (2017). “A arte da brevidade: Contos”, p.7, Autêntica

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