Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 23

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• When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

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  Philosophy, Medicine, Skins

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1291, Delphi Classics

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• There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

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  Stars, Night, Clouds

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.46, Virginia Woolf

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• The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

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  Essence, Giving, Mind

  "The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1918-1924".

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• One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

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  Strong Women, Adversity, People

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.

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  Eye, Green, Green Leaves

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.6, Virginia Woolf

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• She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

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  Atheist, Sake, Blame

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.107, Broadview Press

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• Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

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  Book, Reading, Form

  The Captain's Death Bed, 'Reading' (published 1950).

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• Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.

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  Writing, Aunt, Greatness

  Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928”, Chatto & Windus

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• She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.

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  Beach, Littles, Chaos

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.286, Wordsworth Editions

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• The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.

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  Flames, Literature, World

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.859, Delphi Classics

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• It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.

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  Dream, Silly, Unhappy

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.83, Broadview Press

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• Would there be trees if we didn't see them?

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  Tree, Ifs

  Virginia Woolf (2002). “The Years”, p.144, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

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  People, Jelly, Too Much

  Letter to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 4 July 1938

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• old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.

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  Connections, Emotion

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3206, Delphi Classics

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• A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

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  Wine, Giving, Water

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.89, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl these monsters leave, the waters rocking, the weeds waving and green here, black there, striking to the sand, till by degrees the atoms reassemble, the deposit sifts itself, and a gain through the eyes one sees clear and still, and there comes to the lips some prayer for the departed, some obsequy for the souls of those one nods to, the one never meets again.

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  Weed, Prayer, Eye

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

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  Men, Average, Civilization

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.33, Virginia Woolf

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• I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life; it is or will become a revelation of some order; it is a token of some real thing behind appearances; and I make it real by putting it into words. 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, Children

  Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Schulkind (1976). “Moments of being: unpublished autobiographical writings”, Sussex University Press

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• We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.

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  Lying, Sleep, Cutting

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1444, Delphi Classics

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• I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long - some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies so hideously apparent to me. Out of my suffering I will do it. I will knock. I will enter.

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  Two, Long, Heaven

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.37, Virginia Woolf

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• What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.

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  Excitement, Mrs Dalloway, Said

  Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.141, Wordsworth Editions

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• You have been in every way all that anyone could be.... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.

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  Way, Suicide Note, Saved

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “The Voyage Out”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.

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  Writing, Sea, Solitude

  Virginia Woolf (1981). “Mrs. Dalloway”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.

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  Book, Thinking, Opinion

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4308, Delphi Classics

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• When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

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  Heart, Body, Graves

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.772, Delphi Classics

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