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Reading Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation…
- 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…
- The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your…
- When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the…
- Books are the mirrors of the soul.
- Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my…
- ...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow twenty years ago;…
- He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.
- A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set…
- The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his…
- For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which…
- It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was…
- I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards…
- The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a…
- I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note,…
- I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
- Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.
- Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.
- We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough.…
- Let us begin by clearing up the old confusion between theman who loves learning and the man who loves reading, and point out that there…
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