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From Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
- 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…
- Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.
- I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find…
- It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural…
- They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.
- Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual coming of death.…
- But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves…
- Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is…
- The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that…
- Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness…
- It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike…
- 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…
- ...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…
- Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
- ...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;…
- But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to…
- She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not mind that) the…
- Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from…
- 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…
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