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Firsts 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…
- Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
- First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
- ...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to…
- Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most…
- My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.
- 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…
- Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his…
- ...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely…
- Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They…
- 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…
- 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…
- The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of…
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