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Own Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- 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)…
- 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…
- O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism…
- All artists need a room of their own
- To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to…
- I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.
- There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the…
- But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.
- The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your…
- 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…
- A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
- The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
- My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why?…
- Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
- There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.
- Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.
- I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married
- 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…
- Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that…
- Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of…
- A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies,…
- I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life - for…
- To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition…
- I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
- Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let…
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