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Very Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and…
- When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very…
- Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be…
- What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now…
- Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
- I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.
- The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.
- He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the…
- Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is…
- I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
- 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…
- She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the…
- When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
- 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…
- A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by…
- Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,…
- Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his…
- ...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
- Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long…
- Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand…
- The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.
- 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…
- For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is…
- A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch…
- One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen,…
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