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Some Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and…
- 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.
- Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a…
- Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
- Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be…
- In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging;…
- What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now…
- The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the…
- He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the…
- Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield…
- 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…
- 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…
- I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find…
- Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl…
- 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;…
- Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage…
- Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
- On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
- I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- 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…
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