Colour Quote by Virginia Woolf

“You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.”

Virginia Woolf

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Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

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“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about to meet--what? What extraordinary adventure awaits me, among these mail vans, these porters, these swarms of people calling taxis? I feel insignificant, lost, but exultant. With a soft shock we stop. I will let the others…

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“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths are straight, the trees regular, the sun shaded; escorted by gentlemen, protected by policemen, wedded and buried by clergymen, she has only to walk demurely from cradle to grave and no one will touch a hair…

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“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of…

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Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

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“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing…

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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was…

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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

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Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake…

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“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the…

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“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.”

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“what a luxury to be alone once more,”

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Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.

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Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour. Do it now.

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As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. ‘If you…

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All color is no color.

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To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the rest, can be real only as an idea, and so all I can do is create a colour nuance that means grey but is not it. The painting is then a mixture of grey as…

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