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Too Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation…
- 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…
- She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears;…
- The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped…
- One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
- It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike…
- Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,…
- So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes?…
- Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.
- The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now— James looked at the…
- Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself? Because he loved…
- O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!
- These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.
- No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object…
- 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…
- Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom,…
- Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out…
- There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living…
- And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath…
- History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
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