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Fall Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and…
- For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which…
- Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming…
- For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall…
- To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and…
- All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak…
- Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected…
- As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to…
- Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall
- 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.…
- I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with…
- 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…
- The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here…
- so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts…
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