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Said Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
- The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
- I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.
- Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that…
- A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
- For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and…
- 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…
- Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people…
- What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa,…
- Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,…
- Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
- 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…
- We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget…
- For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which,…
- Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
- So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours,…
- 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…
- A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch…
- Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though…
- But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.
- 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…
- The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to…
- Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in…
- The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated…
- Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)
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