Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 5

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• Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

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  Hate, Three, Plies

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Between the Acts”, p.64, Virginia Woolf

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• All extremes are dangerous.

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  Moderation, Dangerous, Extremes

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2281, Delphi Classics

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• It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

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  Reality, Phantoms, Harder

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.142, Oxford University Press

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• ... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

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  Discovery, Miracle, Perpetual

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “The Years”, p.329, Booklassic

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• And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

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  Life Is, Exciting, Imaginary

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Time

  Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Chatto & Windus

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• I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

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  Giving, Solitude, Want

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.38, Virginia Woolf

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• If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

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  Daughter, Mother, Brother

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Three Guineas”, p.51, Virginia Woolf

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• A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

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  Insanity, Age, Veils

  Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt

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• But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.

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  Sweet, Dust, Tree

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.69, Wordsworth Editions

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• Language is wine upon the lips.

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  Wine, Tongue, Lips

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• My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

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  Happiness, Mind, Way

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

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  Life, Time, Women

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

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  Life, Shade, Too Short

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.903, Delphi Classics

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• I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

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  Self, Sick, Want

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.548, Wordsworth Editions

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• I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

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  Funny, Friendship, Death

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• When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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  Wise, Mother, Writing

  A Room of One's Own ch. 3 (1929)

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• We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

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  Peace, War, Finding The One

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.366

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• How can I express the darkness?

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  Darkness, Chaos

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

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  Writing, People, Silence

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.194, Delphi Classics

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• Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

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  Love, Women, Poet

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.266, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.

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  Happy, Imagination, Mind

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

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  Heart, Brain, Doe

  "Selected Works of Virginia Woolf".

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• It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

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  Pity, Mrs Dalloway, Thousand

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.201, Wordsworth Editions

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