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Made Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
- The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the…
- The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably…
- Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.
- Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an…
- ...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…
- 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…
- The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause;…
- She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave…
- Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by…
- For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which,…
- Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his…
- A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch…
- Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?
- This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw…
- I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the…
- I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
- Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now…
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