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Only Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.
- 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…
- Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write…
- Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.
- Only longing can fill with more of itself.
- To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness…
- The depths of the sea are only water after all.
- 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 from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural…
- At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show…
- 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;…
- The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your…
- She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears;…
- But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes;…
- But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It…
- 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…
- When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.
- I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't…
- Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read…
- The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped…
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