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Things Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- 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.
- Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a…
- 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…
- But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up…
- 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…
- The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch…
- What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who…
- When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
- 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…
- That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your…
- Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.
- I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married
- Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day
- There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the…
- Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no…
- Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but…
- It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became…
- Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They…
- Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.
- With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.
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- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle