Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 4

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• I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

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  People, Soul, Unhappy

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1977). “A change of perspective”, Vintage

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• My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

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  Passion, Reflection, Brain

  Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1979). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935”, Harvest Books

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• The way to write well is to live intensely.

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  Writing, Way, Wells

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• Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

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  Sleep, Draught, Fatigue

  Virginia Woolf, Kate Flint (1999). “Jacob's Room”, p.90, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I prefer men to cauliflowers

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  Men, Cauliflower

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.3, Broadview Press

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• Thinking is my fighting.

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  Healing, Fighting, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.28, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

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  Writing, Plot, Rhythm

  Virginia Woolf (2000). “The Waves”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

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  Intellectual, Materials, Depends

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.141

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• It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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  Life, Dream, Truth

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.583, Wordsworth Editions

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• Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

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  Numbness, People, Soul

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2280, Delphi Classics

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• We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

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  Hands, Feet, Bird

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.104, Oxford University Press

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• And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

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  Literature, Antagonist, Felt

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.306, Wordsworth Editions

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• For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

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  Pleasure, Share, Relish

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2283, Delphi Classics

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• Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.

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  Daughter, Mother, Baby

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• Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

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  Life, Halos, Lamps

  1919 'Modern Fiction'.

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• to teach without zest is a crime.

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  Zest, Crime, Teach

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• Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

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  Life, Sleep, Insomnia

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.64, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I will dream today; for I must unscrew my head somehow.

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  Dream, Today

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• Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

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  Affair, Illusion

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• But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

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  Beautiful, Dark, Self

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

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  Strong, Passion, Light

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.79, Broadview Press

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• Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

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  Beautiful, Winter, Voice

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Night and Day”, p.157, Virginia Woolf

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• We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

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  Fragments, Reconcile, Seasons

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.231, Broadview Press

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• Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

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  Passion, Yield, Rooms

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage

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• I will go down with my colours flying.

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  Color, Flying

  "A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf".

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