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Alone Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.
- For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of…
- Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom…
- London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the…
- One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.
- Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square…
- Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
- For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to…
- She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the…
- For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of…
- About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.
- So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes?…
- If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that…
- And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will…
- It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became…
- So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the…
- While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its…
- I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling…
- . . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.
- A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies,…
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- I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
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