Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Habits gradually change the face of ones life as time changes one's physical face;& one does not know it.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...I thought at last that it was time to roll up the crumpled skin of the day, with its arguments and its… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“…in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For how would you like to be shut up for a whole month at a time, and possibly more in stormy weather,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For the truth is (let her ignore it) that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“This I say is the present moment; this is the first day of the summer holidays. This is part of the emerging… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The writer has us by the hand, forces us along her road, makes us see what she sees, never leaves us for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Yes, our old age is not going to be sunny orchard drowse. By shutting down the fire curtain, though, I find I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She had a sense of comedy that was really exquisite, but she needed people, always people, to bring it out, with the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She felt very young;at the same time unspeakably aged.She sliced like a knife through everything;at the same time was outside,looking on...far out… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“If I could believe," said Rhoda, "that I should grow old in pursuit and change, I should be rid of my fear:… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“As for the other experiences, the solitary ones, which people go through alone, in their bedrooms, in their offices, walking the fields… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that two figures… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We were quite naturally unhappy; feeling a definite need, unbearably keen at moments, which was never to be satisfied. But that was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“At the moment I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
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