Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 8

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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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• Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

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  Wall, Years, Bricks And Mortar

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.617, Wordsworth Editions

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• For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

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  Eye, Strange, Property

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.179, Oxford University Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Writing, Doe, Finals

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

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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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• Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.

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  Book, Sleep, Talking

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.193, Broadview Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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  Writing, Men, Others Opinions

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

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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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• 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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• Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

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  Frivolous, Ifs

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.603, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• 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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• So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.

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  Journey, Vivid, Illness

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.380, Wordsworth Editions

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• Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

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  Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.228, Collector's Library

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• But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

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  Together, Phrases, Territory

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.9, Virginia Woolf

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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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• While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

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  Humility, Dark, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.447, Wordsworth Editions

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