I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the… — 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
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female: and in the man's brain, the man predominates over the woman,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I took the print of life not outwardly, but inwardly upon the raw, the white, the unprotected fibre. I am clouded and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It was a splendid mind. For if thought is like the keyboard of a piano, divided into so many notes, or like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Looked at again and again half consciously by a mind thinking of something else, any object mixes itself so profoundly with the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Those great wars which the body wages with the mind a slave to it, in the solitude of the bedroom against the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...she imagined how in the chambers of the mind and heart of the woman who was, physically, touching her, were stood, like… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The morning was hot, and the exercise of reading left her mind contracting and expanding like the main-spring of a clock, and… — 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
“We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying what we think, then how little… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” — 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
