Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 9

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• Life would split apart without letters.

  Virginia Woolf

  Splits, Letters

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• War is not women's history.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspiring, War, Empowering

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• What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

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  Art, Believe, Skills

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

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• If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.

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  Beautiful, Women, Mean

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.590, Wordsworth Editions

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• Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

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  Running, Fingers

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.24, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?

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  Sex, Men, Two

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.114

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• All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side.

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  Sex, School, Feminist

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.628, Wordsworth Editions

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• Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

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  Inspirational, Believe, Belief

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2001). “The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction”, p.53, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

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  Self, Perception, Consciousness

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• Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.

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  Writing, Doe, Finals

  Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson (1979). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1931”, Harcourt on Demand

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• It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.

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  Choices, Living My Life

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• Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

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  Life, Writing, Attachment

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• A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

  Virginia Woolf

  Self, Six, Literature

  Orlando ch. 6 (1928)

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• Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.

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  Dream, Wine, Sleep

  "The Common Reader". Book by Virginia Woolf, 1925.

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• Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

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  Attitude, Mean, Occupation

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.80, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits.

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  Cat, Order, Waiting

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• I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.

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  Men, Thinking, Views

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• To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.

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  Peace, Looks, Lasts

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• Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

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  Wise, Men, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.23, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.

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  Song, Book, Library

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.828, Wordsworth Editions

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• If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

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  Writing, Together, Crafts

  Virginia Woolf (2006). “To the Lighthouse”, p.4, OUP Oxford

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• . . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

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  Solitude, Clumsiness

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.407, Wordsworth Editions

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• We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life - hers is that of a country parson's daughter; but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that, as we say in real life, they have only to open the door to make themselves felt.

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  War, Character, Doors

  "The Common Reader: First series".

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• Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

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  Poetry, Poet, Beacons Of Light

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.590, Wordsworth Editions

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• The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

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  Mind, Fluttering, Capricious

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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