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Whole Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be…
- I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.
- It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me;…
- Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage…
- As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
- Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
- For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which…
- That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your…
- ...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…
- 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?…
- Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
- Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of…
- 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…
- For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which,…
- So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the…
- After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it…
- Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry…
- We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of…
- I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden…
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