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Book Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation…
- It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time,…
- Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write…
- Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.
- Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read…
- I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
- This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of…
- Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living…
- For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
- 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…
- Books are the mirrors of the soul.
- ...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago;…
- Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,…
- A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set…
- The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his…
- By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or…
- Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What…
- I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
- I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run…
- Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated…
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