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Upon Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy…
- 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…
- He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his…
- 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…
- To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to…
- 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…
- Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters…
- Language is wine upon the lips.
- To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
- If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to…
- When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the…
- With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall…
- ...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon…
- Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my…
- Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most…
- A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set…
- Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.
- For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which…
- The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause;…
- All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak…
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