World Quotes by Virginia Woolf

The world is crammed with delightful things

— Virginia Woolf

“my country is the world”

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All the time she writing the world had continued.

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What a comfort is friendship in this world.

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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

— Virginia Woolf

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.

— Virginia Woolf

The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

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Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

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To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

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To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

— Virginia Woolf

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

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The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?

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Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view…

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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and…

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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the…

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At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the…

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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to…

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Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend…

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... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and…

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Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

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To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry…

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Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say…

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The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on…

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What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like…

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I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's…

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By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate…

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Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the…

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Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this…

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It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets…

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So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself…

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Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and…

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Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come…

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Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift…

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Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is…

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...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the…

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Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws…

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How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.

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“There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.”

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The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.

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After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she…

— Virginia Woolf