Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 7

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• I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

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  Cat, Order, Waiting

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• Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.

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  Communication, Light, Ignorant

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

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  Reading, People, Giving

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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.

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  Museums, Lust, Desire

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

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• Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.

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  Daughter, Mother, Baby

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• We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.

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  Lying, Sleep, Cutting

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1444, Delphi Classics

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• The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.

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  Feelings, Perception, Brain

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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• Words belong to each other.

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  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.88, Oxford University Press

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• No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

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  Clever, Ideas, People

  Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (1977). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1915-1919”, Chatto & Windus

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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

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  Hurt, Pain, Mean

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

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

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  Kindness, Character, Charity

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.89, Broadview 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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• The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

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  Drawing, Mind, Receiving

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2593, Delphi Classics

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• Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

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  Affair, Illusion

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• It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

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  Reality, Phantoms, Harder

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.142, Oxford University Press

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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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• Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

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  Skeletons, Mrs Dalloway, Habit

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.49, Broadview Press

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• For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.

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  Pain, Tears, Together

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.111, Virginia Woolf

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• It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?

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  Sex, Men, Two

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.114

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• Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.

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  Dream, Littles, Phantoms

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.204, Virginia Woolf

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• Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

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  Mind, Pure

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3993, Delphi Classics

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• And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

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  Thinking, Voice

  Virginia Woolf (2011). “The Waves (海浪)”, p.126, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

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  Love, Hands, Opposites

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.70, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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  Life, Time, Women

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

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  Intellectual, Materials, Depends

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.141

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