Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 25

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• I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.

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  Spring, Eye, Past

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.82, Virginia Woolf

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• When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

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  Thinking, Arguing, Argument

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.43

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• Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

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  Book, Animal, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.21, Oxford University Press, USA

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• As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.

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  Writing, Pleasure, Certain

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928”, Harcourt on Demand

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• If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

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  Adventure, Doubt, Goats

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

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  Fall, Long, Rose

  "Orlando: A Biography".

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• In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.

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  Men, Air, Voice

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

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• The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.65

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• Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

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  Clothes, Symbols

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

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  War, Fighting, Clouds

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf - Including a Short Biography of the Author”, p.6, Read Books Ltd

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• History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

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  War, Men, History

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

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• The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

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  Notebook, Teacher, Women

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.565, Wordsworth Editions

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• Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless.

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  Fall, Desert, Human Nature

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.190, Wordsworth Editions

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• There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

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• It is no use trying to sum people up.

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  People, Trying, Use

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.734, Delphi Classics

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• Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

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  Stories, Able, Life Is

  Virginia Woolf (1976). “The Waves”, Chatto & Windus

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• The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

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  Letters, Our Time

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3541, Delphi Classics

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• madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.

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  Hurt, Men, Minutes

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Orlando”, p.162, OUP Oxford

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• To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

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  Unthinkable, Oneself

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1423, Delphi Classics

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• As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

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  Writing, Lava, Madness

  Virginia Woolf (1978). “A Reflection of the Other Person”, Chatto & Windus

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• ... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?

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  Country, Air, People

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

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• One must love everything.

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  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.100, Wordsworth Editions

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• The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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  Witty, Silence, Ornaments

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• Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the

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  Art, Lying, Creativity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.627, Wordsworth Editions

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