Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 5

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• Thinking is my fighting.

  Virginia Woolf

  Healing, Fighting, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.28, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dark, Apparitions, Surface

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.58, Tyché

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• What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Brain, Doe

  "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf".

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• For nothing was simply one thing.

  Virginia Woolf

  Lighthouse, One Thing

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.376, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together

  Virginia Woolf

  Hurt, Pain, Mean

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4186, Delphi Classics

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• He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Our Dreams, Our Lives

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.497, Wordsworth Editions

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• I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mind, Chaos, Absurd

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• Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

  Virginia Woolf

  Affair, Illusion

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• A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

  Virginia Woolf

  Insanity, Age, Veils

  Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt

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• The truer the facts the better the fiction.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fiction, Facts

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.12, Oxford University Press, USA

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• But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Dark, Self

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beauty, Beautiful, Time

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Chatto & Windus

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• As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.530, Wordsworth Editions

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• The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Truth Is, Completeness

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.84, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

  Virginia Woolf

  Funny, Friendship, Death

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• To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Know How, Knows

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.167, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.

  Virginia Woolf

  Museums, Lust, Desire

  Virginia Woolf (1976). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf”

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• Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than any words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Simple, Sight

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928”, Harcourt on Demand

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• I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my attention. I would never cease to look around me and observe myself in relation to nature: either crystal clear skies and sun-melting afternoons, or foggy winter days and weirdly tinted nights. I would never cease to dream and stand by the window, ready to let the diversity of life pass freely through my skin; courageous enough to believe I stood a chance in devouring each shade of sensation. Or perhaps, immensely foolish to plainly - believe at all.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Believe, Winter

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• It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Dream, Truth

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.583, Wordsworth Editions

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• All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Feelings, Madness, Extremes

  "Orlando: A Biography".

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• The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

  Virginia Woolf

  Ordinary, Extraordinary, Depends

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.133, Oxford University Press

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• I prefer men to cauliflowers

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Cauliflower

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.3, Broadview Press

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• Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

  Virginia Woolf

  Kindness, Character, Charity

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.89, Broadview Press

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• Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Doe, Finals

  Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson (1979). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1931”, Harcourt on Demand

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