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Strange Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything…
- 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;…
- Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield…
- Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.
- 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…
- It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.
- But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
- it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams
- Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did…
- All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far…
- And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power as she came…
- There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
- If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to…
- The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one…
- For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
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