Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 12

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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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Together, Phrases, Territory

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

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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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• Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

  Virginia Woolf

  Two, Silence, Chance

  Virginia Woolf (1992). “The voyage out”, p.82, Рипол Классик

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• I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

  Virginia Woolf

  Gifted, One Time

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.136, Virginia Woolf

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• The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2649, Delphi Classics

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• Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

  Virginia Woolf

  Creativity, Order, Creative

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

  Virginia Woolf

  Being In Love, People, Strange

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.873, Delphi Classics

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• Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read.

  Virginia Woolf

  Counting, Havens, Wet

  "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf".

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• A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch of the angry professor had been made in anger. Anger had snatched my pencil while I dreamt. But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom--all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning. Had anger, the black snake, been lurking among them? Yes, said the sketch, anger had.

  Virginia Woolf

  Notebook, Morning, Exercise

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.583, Wordsworth Editions

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• Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Pain, Women

  "A Moment's Liberty". Book by Virginia Woolf, Wednesday 15 September, 1926, 1990.

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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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• On or about December 1910, human character changed.

  Virginia Woolf

  Character, December, Changed

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.38, Oxford University Press

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• We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—

  Virginia Woolf

  Spirit, Divine, Mouthpiece

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.143, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

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  Serenity, Looks, Innocence

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1146, Delphi Classics

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• All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence.

  Virginia Woolf

  Character, Atmosphere, Mind

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2982, Delphi Classics

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• Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.

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  Writing, Reality, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2687, Delphi Classics

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• How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?

  Virginia Woolf

  Mean, Reality, Feelings

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”, Harcourt

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• And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Demand, May

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.530, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Feelings, Perception, Brain

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

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• But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

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  Believe, Lips, Opinion

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.187, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Writing, Divine

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1888-1912 (Virginia Stephen)”, Harcourt on Demand

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• For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

  Virginia Woolf

  Years, Mind, Body

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.834, Wordsworth Editions

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• Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.

  Virginia Woolf

  Years, Six, Form

  "Orlando: A Biography".

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