“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I am alone. They have gone into the house for breakfast, and I am left standing by the wall among the flowers.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. Roll up that tender air and the plant dies, the colour… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sex and its nature might well attract doctors and biologists; but what was surprising and difficult of explanation was the fact that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin stripes. It hangs like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“One holds every phrase, every scene to the light as one reads - for Nature seems, very oddly, to have provided us… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds, of rainbow and granite,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What could be more absurd? Yet it is nature's folly, not ours. When she set about her chief masterpiece, the making of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“[W]e cease to be soldiers in the army of the upright; we become deserters. They march to battle. We float with the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He wondered why on earth he had asked these people, and what one really expected to get from bunching human beings up… — 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
“He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The strongest natures, when they are influenced, submit the most unreservedly; it is perhaps a sign of their strength.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He was not afraid. At every moment Nature signified by some laughing hint like that gold spot which went round the wall--there,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There were mountains; there were valleys; there were streams. She climbed the mountains; roamed the valleys; sat on the banks of streams.....when,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Hail! natural desire! Hail! happiness! divine happiness! and pleasure of all sorts, flowers and wine, though one fades and the other intoxicates;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He sighed profoundly, and flung himself - there was a passion in his movements which deserves the word - on the earth… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But if sleep it was, of what nature, we can scarcely refrain from asking, are such sleeps as these? Are they remedial… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sitting down on a bank to wait for my train, I thought then how we surrender, how we submit to the stupidity… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I lie back. It seems as if the whole world were flowing and curving — on the earth the trees, in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds...” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“You have been reading Byron. You have been marking the passages that seem to approve of your own character. I find marks… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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