The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be seen whole or read from start to finish. What was seen begun - like two friends starting to meet… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There's no doubt in my mind that I've found out how to begin at this age to say sth in my own… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“she read, and so reading she was ascending, she felt, on to the top, on to the summit. How satisfying! How restful!… — virginia woolf Copy Share Image
“What a phantasmagoria the mind is and meeting-place of dissemblables! At one moment we deplore our birth and state and aspire to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She has no body as others have. People have no meaning to her. She has no answer for them. Her mind steps… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my… — 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
Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But he never looked at his daughter, and strode out of the room, leaving in the minds of the women a sense,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Her mind was like her room, in which lights advanced and retreated, came pirouetting and stepping delicately, spread their tails, pecked their… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Often I feel the different aspects of life bursting my mind asunder.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I have a perfectly romantic and no doubt untrue vision of you in my mind – stamping out the hops in a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He meant, perhaps, that the androgynous mind is resonant and porous; that it transmits emotion without impediment; that it is naturally creative,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And for some reason she held the sentence suspended without meaning in her mind’s ear, “…quite enough for everybody at present,” she… — 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
