Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 15

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• I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

  Virginia Woolf

  Spring, Autumn, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.102, Wordsworth Editions

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• Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Happiness, Littles, Strings

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Chatto & Windus

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• Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Sight, Order

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.122, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Blow, Blue

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.165, Virginia Woolf

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• I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that.

  Virginia Woolf

  Jobs, Clever, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.755, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Musician, Done, Film

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

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• I see through most people; I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.

  Virginia Woolf

  People

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• It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hatred, Soul, Monsters

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.12, Broadview Press

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• By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Travel, Book

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.630, Wordsworth Editions

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• Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.

  Virginia Woolf

  Names, America, Gentleman

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1140, Delphi Classics

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• I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Numbness, Break

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.712, Wordsworth Editions

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• Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

  Virginia Woolf

  Vision, Laying Down, Lighthouse

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1130, Delphi Classics

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• Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Age, Aging

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

  Virginia Woolf

  Happiness, Men, World

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.44, Virginia Woolf

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• The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

  Virginia Woolf

  Boots, Stones, Kicks

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.33, Tyché

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• As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Fall, Writing

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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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• Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s.

  Virginia Woolf

  Arrogant, Assuming, Commoners

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.102, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

  Virginia Woolf

  Greek, Useless, Language

  Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee (2000). “A room of one's own and other essays”

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• Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Adventure, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.311, OUP Oxford

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• The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Maps, London

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.70, Wordsworth Editions

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• Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Prose And Poetry, Poetry Is

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.61, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

  Virginia Woolf

  Lying, Semblance

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.119, Virginia Woolf

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• All the months are crude experiments,
  out of which the perfect September is made.

  Virginia Woolf

  Perfect, Months, September

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage

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• In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Men, June

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.852, Delphi Classics

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