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title: "7 Fingers Quotes By Virginia Woolf"
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> [Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/truth-had-run-through-my-fingers-every-drop-had-escaped/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/a-learned-man-is-a-sedentary-concentrated-solitary-enthusiast-who/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/every-season-is-likeable-and-wet-days-and-fine-red-wine-and-white/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/about-here-she-thought-dabbling-her-fingers-in-the-water-a-ship-had/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/let-us-again-pretend-that-life-is-a-solid-substance-shaped-like-a/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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> [For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/for-it-would-seem-her-case-proved-it-that-we-write-not-with-the/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/the-weight-of-the-world-is-on-our-shoulders-its-vision-is-through-our/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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## Other authors on Fingers

## More by Virginia Woolf

> [Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/fatigue-is-the-safest-sleeping-draught/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/the-train-slows-and-lengthens-as-we-approach-london-the-centre-and-my/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/across-the-broad-continent-of-a-woman-s-life-falls-the-shadow-of-a/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/other-worshipful-objects-were-content-with-worship-men-women-god-all/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/why-does-samuel-butler-say-wise-men-never-say-what-they-think-of/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/sometimes-he-woke-with-a-brain-like-lead-at-others-it-was-as-if-a/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/the-extraordinary-woman-depends-on-the-ordinary-woman-it-is-only-when/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/a-veil-of-insanity-everywhere-oh-why-i-was-born-in-this-age-it-is-a/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/love-ought-to-stop-on-both-sides-don-t-you-think-simultaneously-he/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/it-is-so-vast-an-alleviation-to-be-able-to-point-for-another-to-look/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/what-a-vast-fertility-of-pleasure-books-hold-for-me-i-think-i-could/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“what a luxury to be alone once more,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/what-a-luxury-to-be-alone-once-more/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“...a woman writing thinks back through her mothers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/a-woman-writing-thinks-back-through-her-mothers/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/for-one-s-children-so-often-gave-one-s-own-perceptions-a-little/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

> [“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/she-would-not-say-of-anyone-in-the-world-now-that-they-were-this-or/)

[Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/)

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