Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 16

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• With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.

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  Past, Feet, Giving

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.110, Virginia Woolf

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• It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

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  Moving, Mind, Legs

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.571, Wordsworth Editions

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• The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

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  Flower, Practice, Rose

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.411, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?

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  Thinking, Moments, Feels

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• For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

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  Fall, Reading, Writing

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.46, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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• I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

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  Glowing, Romance, Together

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

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• The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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  Happiness, Beauty, Laughter

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.573, Wordsworth Editions

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• Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I thought, looking at Antony and Cleopatra; and when people compare Shakespeare and Jane Austen, they may mean that the minds of both had consumed all impediments; and for that reason we do not know Jane Austen and we do not know Shakespeare, and for that reason Jane Austen pervades every word that she wrote, and so does Shakespeare.

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  Hate, Writing, Mean

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas”, p.111, OUP Oxford

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• You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?

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  Christian, Garden, Bells

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”

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• Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable sensations for a reader (since nothing is more dismal than to open the door and get no response).

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  Reading, Air, Doors

  Virginia Woolf (2017). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929 - 1932”, p.298, Random House

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• Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word that he writes ... He is without doubt the prince of his profession.

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  Writing, Men, Perfect

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• The poet is always our contemporary.

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  Poet, Contemporary

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932”, Chatto & Windus

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• I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.

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  Water, Save Me, Rough

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.94, ShandonPress

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• every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works, yet we require critics to explain the one and biographers to expound the other. That time hangs heavy on people's hands is the only explanation of the monstrous growth.

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  Hands, People, Soul

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.499, Wordsworth Editions

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• Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now behind some ornamental pillar, so as to put off as long as possible the shock of recognition, so as to be secure for one more moment to rock her petals in her basin. We wake her. We torture her. She dreads us, she despises us, yet she comes cringing to our sides because for al our cruelty there is always some name, some face which sheds a radiance, which lights up her pavements and makes it possible for her to replenish her dreams.

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  Dream, Light, Rocks

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• I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!

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  Morning, Lying, Self

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”

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• Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall

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  Fall, Heart, Sea

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.39, Broadview Press

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• Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.

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  Life, Beats

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.12, Virginia Woolf

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• Oh, I am in love with life!

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  Love Life

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.47, ShandonPress

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• I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

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  Writing, Thinking, Species

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.286, HMH

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• scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.

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  Fighting, Bird, Satisfaction

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Three Guineas (Annotated)”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.

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  Marriage, Memories, Writing

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• Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

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  Cat, Men, Surfing

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.137, Virginia Woolf

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• I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

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  Writing, Thinking, Mood

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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