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Best Up Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- It is no use trying to sum people up.
- It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust…
- Why must they grow up and lose it all?
- Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
- Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.
- She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave…
- She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking…
- But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the…
- To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have-…
- Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his…
- 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…
- So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours,…
- They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were…
- Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just…
- Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of…
- 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…
- Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.
- This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw…
- 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…
- But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him-…
- I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the…
- I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
- Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know…
- Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her…
- When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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