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Often Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
- When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very…
- I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.
- For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of…
- The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.
- Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
- 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…
- Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square…
- The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
- I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
- Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely…
- Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.
- For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of…
- 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…
- They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were…
- . . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
- She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was…
- 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.…
- Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom,…
- My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.
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