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Make Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
- We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for her poetry. Probably…
- It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me;…
- Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the…
- 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…
- Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
- You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
- There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould…
- 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…
- ...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…
- Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that…
- And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power as she came…
- No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the…
- Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no…
- But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.
- Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out…
- I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden…
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