Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 6

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• He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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  Dream, Our Dreams, Our Lives

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.497, Wordsworth Editions

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• Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

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  Artist, Criticism, Want

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• You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

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  School, Boys, Order

  Virginia Woolf, Anne Olivier Bell (1977). “1920-1924”, Chatto & Windus

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• Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence

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  Party, Giving, Silence

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• One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

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  Writing, Sea, Bottom

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

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• When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

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  Reading, People, Giving

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• Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

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  Mind, Pure

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3993, Delphi Classics

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• Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

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  Art, Nature, Humans

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A moment's liberty: the shorter diary”, Vintage

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• These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.

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  Moments, Despised

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1395, Delphi Classics

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• Words belong to each other.

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  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.88, Oxford University Press

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• For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

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  Writing, Heart, Wind

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “Orlando”, p.149, Booklassic

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• As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

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  Hate, Writing, Letters

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

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• Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

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  Heart, Light, Treasure

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “Monday or Tuesday”, p.5, Virginia Woolf

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• For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.

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  Pain, Tears, Together

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.111, Virginia Woolf

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• When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

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  Stars, Matter, Affair

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Night and Day”, p.170, Virginia Woolf

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• Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.

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  Animal, Self, Leader

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932”, Chatto & Windus

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• The truer the facts the better the fiction.

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  Fiction, Facts

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.12, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

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  Drawing, Mind, Receiving

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2593, Delphi Classics

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• Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

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  Looks, Littles, Pavement

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

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  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  "The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1920-1924".

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• Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

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  Women, Interesting, Feminism

  A Room of One's Own ch. 2 (1929)

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• Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.

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  Dream, Littles, Phantoms

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.204, Virginia Woolf

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• The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

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  Order, Empathy, Mind

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

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• To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

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  Being Alone, Darkness, Invisible

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.296, Wordsworth Editions

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• Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.

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  Dark, Reflection, Night

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.558, Wordsworth Editions

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