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Best Thinking Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
- Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There…
- For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of…
- 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…
- And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.
- Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one…
- I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
- My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.
- There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?
- I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run…
- To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was…
- 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…
- It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship you. The light…
- Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
- As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
- 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…
- I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing…
- For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
- 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 way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a…
- The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no…
- How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and…
- The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People…
- Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the…
- Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.
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