Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 7

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• Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Believe, Belief

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2001). “The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction”, p.53, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Diversity, Poetry

  A Room of One's Own ch. 3 (1929)

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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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• Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Nature, Humans

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A moment's liberty: the shorter diary”, Vintage

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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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• 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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• If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?

  Virginia Woolf

  Mean, Reality, Feelings

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.445, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reading, People, Giving

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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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• Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Night, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.214, Virginia Woolf

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Moments, Despised

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

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• If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion.

  Virginia Woolf

  Success, Sight, People

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.835, Wordsworth Editions

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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

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Hands, Opposites

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

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• One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

  Virginia Woolf

  Birthday, Time, Maturity

  Virginia Woolf (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918”, Chatto & Windus

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• Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

  Virginia Woolf

  Jealousy, Passion, Mankind

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.179, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• 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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• As a woman, I have no country

  Virginia Woolf

  Country

  Three Guineas pt. 3 (1938)

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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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• 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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• Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.

  Virginia Woolf

  Song, Book, Library

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.828, Wordsworth Editions

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• Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dust, Arches, Meteors

  Virginia Woolf (2006). “Orlando (Annotated): A Biography”, p.146, HMH

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

  Virginia Woolf

  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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