Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 8

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• A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Writing, Words Of Wisdom

  A Room of One's Own ch. 1 (1929)

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• It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

  Virginia Woolf

  Spiritual, Mind, Intimacy

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.37, Wordsworth Editions

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• I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

  Virginia Woolf

  Divine, Bookcases

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.184, Virginia Woolf

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• Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

  Virginia Woolf

  Real, Character, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2017). “Moments Of Being”, p.100, Random House

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• Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than any words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

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  Morning, Simple, Sight

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928”, Harcourt on Demand

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• Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Yield, Civilization

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

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• This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

  Virginia Woolf

  Peace, War, Women

  A Room of One's Own ch. 4 (1929)

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• Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, Mind, Looks

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.859, Wordsworth Editions

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• With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Tragedy, Married

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.902, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

  Virginia Woolf

  Funny, Humor, Programming

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Writing, Reflection

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.

  Virginia Woolf

  Soul, Atmosphere, Earth

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.119, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

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  Art, Imagination, Perception

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.375, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reality, Men, World

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.149

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• I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

  Virginia Woolf

  Phrases, Wander, Single Word

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.13, Collector's Library

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• Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Penalties

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.371, Wordsworth Editions

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• Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

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  Illusion, Praise, Catastrophe

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.572, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Soul, Secret

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.122, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?

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  Mean, Reality, Feelings

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.445, Delphi Classics

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• On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

  Virginia Woolf

  Funny, Art, Pain

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.756, Wordsworth Editions

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• Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, People, Giving

  Georg Brand, Virginia Woolf, Koizumi Yakumo, Hernández Felisberto (2017). “ON READING: Le plaisir de lire”, p.34, Pieffe Edizioni via PublishDrive

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• ...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.

  Virginia Woolf

  Feelings, One Day, Mrs Dalloway

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.132, Wordsworth Editions

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• Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fashion, Views, Clothes

  Virginia Woolf (1995). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Silence, Needs, Done

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1377, Delphi Classics

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• Well, we must wait for the future to show.

  Virginia Woolf

  Patience, Waiting, Shows

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.98, Virginia Woolf

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