Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 7

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• The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

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  Ordinary, Extraordinary, Depends

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.133, Oxford University Press

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• Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

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  Sight, Profound, Long

  Virginia Woolf (1983). “To the lighthouse: the original holograph draft”, Chatto & Windus

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• Soup is cuisines kindest course

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  Soup, Cuisine, Courses

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• As a woman, I have no country

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  Country

  Three Guineas pt. 3 (1938)

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• While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

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  Humility, Dark, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.447, Wordsworth Editions

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• And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

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  Thinking, Voice

  Virginia Woolf (2011). “The Waves (海浪)”, p.126, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

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  Eye, Mind, Vain

  Virginia Woolf, Michèle Barrett (1979). “Women and writing”, Womens Pr Ltd

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• I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

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  Mind, Chaos, Absurd

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• Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

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  Travel, Women, Speech

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2260, Delphi Classics

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• Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

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  Skeletons, Mrs Dalloway, Habit

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.49, Broadview Press

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• Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

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  Play, Support, Soul

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

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• Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

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  Good Night, Winter, Sound

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “Jacob's Room”, p.46, Booklassic

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• Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.

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  Frail

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.69, Virginia Woolf

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• The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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  Women, Truth Is, Completeness

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.84, Oxford University Press, USA

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• By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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  Dream, Waking, Life Is

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The artist after all is a solitary being.

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  Artist, Solitary

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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• I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

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  Brain, Rooms

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4339, Delphi Classics

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• How remorseless life is!

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  Life Is, Remorseless

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.175, Wordsworth Editions

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• We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.

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  Art, Mystery, Danger

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• One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

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  Believe

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.116, Oxford University Press, USA

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• literature is the record of our discontent.

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  Records, Literature, Discontent

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2014, Delphi Classics

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• Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

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  Frivolous, Ifs

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.603, Wordsworth Editions

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• I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

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  Age, Found

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.521, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

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  Spring, Writing, Practice

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.344, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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  Tragedy, Hungry, Hours

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.140, Virginia Woolf

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