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World Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity…
- 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…
- As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
- The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
- I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.
- 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…
- All the time she writing the world had continued.
- 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?…
- By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or…
- If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that…
- There is no stability in this world. Who is to say what meaning there is in anything? Who is to foretell the flight of a…
- To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and…
- Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from…
- It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite…
- 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…
- 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…
- The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.
- Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in…
- Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by…
- ...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely…
- At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society…
- Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world…
- 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…
- It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
- Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They…
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