"For this moment, this one moment, we are……" — Virginia Woolf
"For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob."
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Virginia Woolf
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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf has 642 quotes on this site.
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly,…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen…
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals…
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of…
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He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the…
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A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great…
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This democracy of ours, which sometimes we've treated so lightly, is more than ever a comfortable cloak, so let us…
— Ronald Reagan
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Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder
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What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.
— Aldous Huxley
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History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings,…
— Charles Darwin
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All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow…
— Harriet Martineau
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Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads.…
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