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> [In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/in-marriage-a-little-licence-a-little-independence-there-must-be/)

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> [Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/safe-safe-safe-the-pulse-of-the-house-beats-wildly-waking-i-cry-oh-is/)

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

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> [It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/it-is-from-the-middle-class-that-writers-spring-because-it-is-in-the/)

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

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> [To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/to-enjoy-freedom-we-have-of-course-to-control-ourselves-we-must-not/)

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

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> [Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/those-comfortably-padded-lunatic-asylums-which-are-known/)

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

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> [Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/every-face-every-shop-bedroom-window-public-house-and-dark-square-is/)

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

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> [My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/my-mind-turned-by-anxiety-or-other-cause-from-its-scrutiny-of-blank/)

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

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/for-such-will-be-our-ruin-if-you-in-the-immensity-of-your-public/)

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

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> [The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/the-taste-for-books-was-an-early-one-as-a-child-he-was-sometimes-2/)

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

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> [But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/but-when-the-door-shuts-on-us-all-that-vanishes-the-shell-like/)

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

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> [Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/words-english-words-are-full-of-echoes-of-memories-of-associations/)

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

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> [Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/anecdote-a-house-that-is-rooted-to-one-spot-but-can-travel-as-quickly/)

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

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> [... the random talk of people who have no chance of immortality and thus can speak their minds out has a setting,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/the-random-talk-of-people-who-have-no-chance-of-immortality-and-thus/)

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

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> [Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/listening-had-there-been-any-one-to-listen-from-the-upper-rooms-of/)

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

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> [I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/i-like-the-copious-shapeless-warm-not-so-very-clever-but-extremely/)

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

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> [“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/fiction-is-like-a-spider-s-web-attached-ever-so-lightly-perhaps-but/)

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

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> [Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/yes-yes-i-m-coming-right-up-the-top-of-the-house-one-moment-i-ll/)

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

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## Other authors on House

## 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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