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Us Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
- In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
- Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to…
- It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
- Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty)…
- The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the…
- 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…
- But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves…
- 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…
- The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that…
- Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
- Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness…
- A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts…
- The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
- This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she…
- It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
- There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould…
- 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…
- Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us 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…
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