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> [Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/yield-to-that-strange-passion-which-sends-you-madly-whirling-round/)

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

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> [it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/it-is-strange-how-the-dead-leap-out-on-us-at-street-corners-or-in/)

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> [It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/it-is-strange-how-a-scrap-of-poetry-works-in-the-mind-and-makes-the/)

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

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> [There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/there-is-the-strange-power-we-have-of-changing-facts-by-the-force-of/)

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

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> [For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/for-the-eye-has-this-strange-property-it-rests-only-on-beauty/)

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

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> [Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/dance-music-stirs-some-barbaric-instinct-lulled-asleep-in-our-sober/)

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

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> [It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/it-was-strange-to-think-that-all-the-great-women-of-fiction-were/)

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

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> [But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/but-nothing-is-so-strange-when-one-is-in-love-and-what-was-this/)

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

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> [“Everything is strange. Things are huge and very small. The stalks of flowers are thick as oak trees. Leaves are high as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/everything-is-strange-things-are-huge-and-very-small-the-stalks-of/)

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

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> [The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/the-strange-thing-about-life-is-that-though-the-nature-of-it-must/)

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

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> [And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/and-it-was-awfully-strange-he-thought-how-she-still-had-the-power-as/)

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> [How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/how-are-we-to-account-for-the-strange-human-craving-for-the-pleasure/)

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

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> [“I must be able to say, 'Percival, a ridiculous name'. At the same time let me tell you, men and women, hurrying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/i-must-be-able-to-say-percival-a-ridiculous-name-at-the-same-time-let/)

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

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> [We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/we-all-indulge-in-the-strange-pleasant-process-called-thinking-but/)

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

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> [Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/again-somehow-one-saw-life-a-pure-bead-i-lifted-the-pencil-again/)

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

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> [All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/all-looked-distant-and-peaceful-and-strange-the-shore-seemed-refined/)

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

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> [In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/in-people-s-eyes-in-the-swing-tramp-and-trudge-in-the-bellow-and/)

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

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> [A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/a-strange-thing-has-happened-while-all-the-other-arts-were-born-naked/)

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> [If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/if-one-is-to-deal-with-people-on-a-large-scale-and-say-what-one/)

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

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> [“That was the strange thing, that one did not know where one was going, or what one wanted, and followed blindly, suffering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/that-was-the-strange-thing-that-one-did-not-know-where-one-was-going/)

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## Other authors on Strange

## 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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