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Back Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the…
- He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the…
- But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to…
- There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the…
- A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
- Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There…
- For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it…
- Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,…
- Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!
- He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree…
- For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
- The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a…
- Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness.…
- The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People…
- The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to…
- Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her…
- The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with…
- There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living…
- And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath…
- At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the…
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