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World Quotes by Virginia Woolf

57 World quotes by Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf paints a world that can change from a quiet pool to a stormy sea, where strangers may become lifelong friends. She urges us to light our own souls, to find meaning in nature, and to accept that public and private lives are tangled. She also ponders whether the world itself has any meaning.

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The world is crammed with delightful things

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What a comfort is friendship in this world.

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All the time she writing the world had continued.

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“my country is the world”

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“There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.”

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How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.

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The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?

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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

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The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.

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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

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To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

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To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

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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…

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After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she…

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Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

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... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and…

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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…

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Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend…

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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…

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At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the…

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Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes. Any help we can give you must be different from…

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But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear…

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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…

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For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we…

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The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or…

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O how blessed it would be never to marry, or grow old; but to spend one's life innocently and indifferently among the…

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But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the…

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One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who…

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...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the…

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Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is…

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Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift…

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Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and…

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“That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and…

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There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the…

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Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is…

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Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws…

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Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

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The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

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As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the…

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