Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 2

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• Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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  Book, Reading, Mirrors

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1835, Delphi Classics

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• Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

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  Incessant, Solitary, Confinement

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.341, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

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  Silence, Silent

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• The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

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  Reading, Giving, Advice

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2597, Delphi Classics

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• I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

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  Independent, Eye, Self

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

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  Inspirational, Country, Strong Women

  Three Guineas pt. 3 (1938)

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• There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

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  Life, Dream, Hair

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1819, Delphi Classics

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• Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

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  Horse, Blame, Praise

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.819, Delphi Classics

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• I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

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  Sky, Mood

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• My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

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  Brain, Madness, Scrap

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• I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

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  People, Different, Made

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.97, Virginia Woolf

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• Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

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  Reality, Tea, Cups Of Tea

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• Fear no more, says the heart.

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  Heart, Mrs Dalloway

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

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• How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

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  Coffee, Sea, Knives

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.253, Collector's Library

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• I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

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  People, Silence, Sublime

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• I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Healing, Delight

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.48, Delphi Classics

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• Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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  Life, Order, Should

  Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose (2003). “The Mrs. Dalloway reader”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Broken

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.148, Collector's Library

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• She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

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  Beach, Eye, Blue

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “To the Lighthouse”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

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  Space, Mind, Spread

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

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• I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

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  Shadow, Skins, Feels

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• Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

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  Freedom, Women, Reading

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.610, Wordsworth Editions

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• A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.

  Virginia Woolf

  Healing, Hands, Perfect

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• I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

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  Acquiescence, Intensity, Passive

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4552, Delphi Classics

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• If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. 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. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.

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  Successful, Night, Sight

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