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Out Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.
- 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.
- Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty)…
- Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.
- I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.
- Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.
- We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how…
- I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
- A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts…
- I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
- When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
- She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the…
- 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…
- Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths…
- That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your…
- There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.
- it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams
- It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite…
- Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine…
- They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.
- He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree…
- The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on…
- ...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely…
- There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the…
- For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is…
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