Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 27

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• Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

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  Art, Order, Fiction

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

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• In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.

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  Shadow, Life Is, Embrace

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.766, Delphi Classics

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• If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.

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  Beautiful, Half, Paradox

  Virginia Woolf, Jan Morris (1993). “Travels with Virginia Woolf”, Random House (UK)

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• I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

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  Mother, Running, Children

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1888-1912 (Virginia Stephen)”, Harcourt on Demand

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• Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?

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  Believe, Goes On, Matter

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.9, Broadview Press

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• To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.

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  Book, Hands, Together

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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• Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

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  Hate, Women, Heart

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• It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

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  Vision, Written

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• He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.

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  Running, Loneliness, Lying

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.387, Wordsworth Editions

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• The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.

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  Thinking, Treasure, Common

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

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• ... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.

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  World, Tyranny, Connected

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2851, Delphi Classics

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• All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far from it and given it the changed look, the composed look, of something receding in which one has no longer any part.

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  Distance, Peaceful, Looks

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.128, Virginia Woolf

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• Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

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  Book, Domes, Helping

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.611, Wordsworth Editions

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• First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

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  Air, Circles, Musical

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

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  Feet, Long, Broken

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.176, Virginia Woolf

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• So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

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  Girl, Men, Balls

  To the Lighthouse (1927) pt. 1, ch. 13

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• They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.

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  Travel, Sky, Dying

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• ... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.

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  Animal, Doubt, Capacity

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4383, Delphi Classics

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• The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

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  Sunshine, Fog, Weather

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• The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.

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  Spring, Done, Toss

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.341, Wordsworth Editions

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• Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual coming of death. As people describe love. To note every symptom of failure: but why failure? To treat age as an experience that is different from the others; and to detect every one of the gradual stages towards death which is a tremendous experience, an not as unconscious, at least in its approaches, as death is.

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  Love, People, Interesting

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4523, Delphi Classics

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• Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

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  Olivia, Chloe, May

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.106

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• There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

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  Literature, Rooms, Essays

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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• The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.

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  Running, Wall, Eye

  Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.119, Wordsworth Editions

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• The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

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  Children, Book, Reading

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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