Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 6

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• I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Plot, Rhythm

  Virginia Woolf (2000). “The Waves”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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

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  Pity, Mrs Dalloway, Thousand

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

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• Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.

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  Animal, Self, Leader

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932”, Chatto & Windus

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• Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

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  Numbness, People, Soul

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2280, Delphi Classics

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• ...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago; where one moved about without haste or anxiety, for there was no future to worry about. She knew what had happened to them, what to her. It was like reading a good book again, for she knew the end of that story, since it had happened twenty years ago, and life, which shot down even from this dining-room table in cascades, heaven knows where, was sealed up there, and lay, like a lake, placidly between its banks.

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  Dream, Reading, Book

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.315, Wordsworth Editions

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• Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

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  Looks, Littles, Pavement

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

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  Daughter, Mother, Brother

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Three Guineas”, p.51, Virginia Woolf

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• For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

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  Musician, Done, Film

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.175, Oxford University Press

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• My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

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  Passion, Reflection, Brain

  Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1979). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”, Harvest Books

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• It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

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  Birthday, Hard Work, Age

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.26, Oxford University Press

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• Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.

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  Dark, Reflection, Night

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.558, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thoughts without words… Can that be?

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• We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

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  Fragments, Reconcile, Seasons

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.231, Broadview Press

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• I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

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  Brain, Rooms

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4339, Delphi Classics

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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.

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  Happy, Imagination, Mind

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

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• I will dream today; for I must unscrew my head somehow.

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  Dream, Today

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• To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

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  Reality, Literature, Disease

  Virginia Woolf (2006). “Orlando (Annotated): A Biography”, p.123, HMH

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• She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

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  Light, Soul, Waterfalls

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• All extremes are dangerous.

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  Moderation, Dangerous, Extremes

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2281, Delphi Classics

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• Language is wine upon the lips.

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  Wine, Tongue, Lips

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• I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

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  Writing, People, Silence

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.194, 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.

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  Beautiful, Winter, Voice

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

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• ... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

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  Discovery, Miracle, Perpetual

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “The Years”, p.329, Booklassic

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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.

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  Beautiful, Women, Mean

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

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