Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 6

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• It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

  Virginia Woolf

  Pity, Mrs Dalloway, Thousand

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.201, Wordsworth Editions

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• When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

  Virginia Woolf

  Stars, Matter, Affair

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Night and Day”, p.170, Virginia Woolf

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• How can I express the darkness?

  Virginia Woolf

  Darkness, Chaos

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Happy, Imagination, Mind

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.

  Virginia Woolf

  Character, People, Feelings

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• Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

  Virginia Woolf

  Travel, Women, Speech

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2260, Delphi Classics

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• I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mean, Mind, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

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  Beautiful, Dark, Self

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

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• Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Halos, Lamps

  1919 'Modern Fiction'.

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• Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Interesting, Feminism

  A Room of One's Own ch. 2 (1929)

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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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• And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Literature, Antagonist, Felt

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.306, Wordsworth Editions

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• These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.

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  Moments, Despised

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1395, Delphi Classics

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• Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sleep, Draught, Fatigue

  Virginia Woolf, Kate Flint (1999). “Jacob's Room”, p.90, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Women, Mean

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.590, Wordsworth Editions

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• We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

  Virginia Woolf

  Peace, War, Finding The One

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.366

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• Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sight, Profound, Long

  Virginia Woolf (1983). “To the lighthouse: the original holograph draft”, Chatto & Windus

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• As a woman, I have no country

  Virginia Woolf

  Country

  Three Guineas pt. 3 (1938)

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• Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Writing, Bricks

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

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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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• The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

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  Order, Empathy, Mind

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

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• Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Winter, Voice

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Night and Day”, p.157, Virginia Woolf

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• Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

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  Love, Women, Poet

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.266, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life Is, Exciting, Imaginary

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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