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Virginia Woolf  Quotes
There is a coherence in things, a stability; something… is immune from change and shines out… in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby.

—Virginia Woolf

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I am what I am, and intend to be it,” for which there will be no form in the world unless Jacob makes one for himself. The Plumers will try to prevent him from making...

—Virginia Woolf

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He was incapable of untruth; never tampered with a fact; never altered a disagreeable word to suit the pleasure or convenience of any mortal being, least of all his own children, who, sprung from his...

—Virginia Woolf

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Like” and “like” and “like”–but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

—Virginia Woolf

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Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough...

—Virginia Woolf

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You send a girl to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

—Virginia Woolf

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But beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty – it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life – froze it. One forgot the little agitations; the flush, the pallor, some queer distortion,...

—Virginia Woolf

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the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string

—Virginia Woolf

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The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.

—Virginia Woolf

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Chastity … has, even now, a religious importance in a woman’s life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day...

—Virginia Woolf

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ChastitiyDignityDouble-Standards
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A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was...

—Virginia Woolf

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Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.

—Virginia Woolf

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Possible then the professor inited a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of omen, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his superiority.

—Virginia Woolf

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I am reading Henry James… and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

—Virginia Woolf

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

—Virginia Woolf

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LifePeace
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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.

—Virginia Woolf

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He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous; yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of...

—Virginia Woolf

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Hail, happiness, then, and after happiness, hail not those dreams which bloat the sharp image as spotted mirrors do the face in a country-inn parlour; dreams which splinter the whole and tear us asunder and...

—Virginia Woolf

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He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to...

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If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.

—Virginia Woolf

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EntertainmentLifeSocializing
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These hotels are not consoling places. Far from it. Any number of people had hung up their hats on those pegs. Even the flies, if you thought of it, had settled on other people’s noses....

—Virginia Woolf

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The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme —...

—Virginia Woolf

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The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

—Virginia Woolf

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When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better–her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she...

—Virginia Woolf

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I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to...

—Virginia Woolf

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It was awful, he cried, awful, awful!Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.

—Virginia Woolf

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Life-ExperienceLove-Hurts
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

—Virginia Woolf

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BooksLibrary
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Life stand still here.

—Virginia Woolf

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Life
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My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as...

—Virginia Woolf

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Those ruffians, the Gods, shan’t have it all their own way,– her notion being that the Gods, who never lost a chance of hurting, thwarting and spoiling human lives were seriously put out if, all...

—Virginia Woolf

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GodsReligion
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Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be...

—Virginia Woolf

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BooksExpectationsOpen-Mindedness
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What was she dreaming about, Mrs. Ramsay wondered, seeing her engrossed, as she stood there, with some thought of her own, so that she had to repeat the message twice––ask Mildred if Andrew, Miss Doyle,...

—Virginia Woolf

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ChildrenDaydreamDistortion
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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order

—Virginia Woolf

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Creativity
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In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only...

—Virginia Woolf

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Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

—Virginia Woolf

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Sleep
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As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of the strangest kind- of flesh turned to atoms which drove before the wind,...

—Virginia Woolf

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Shakespeare is getting flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him, as they put his monument at Stratford beyond the reach of scribbling fingers. With all this buzz of criticism about, one may...

—Virginia Woolf

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The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.

—Virginia Woolf

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LifeShakespeare
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No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as...

—Virginia Woolf

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When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think...

—Virginia Woolf

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But this was suddenly interrupted, William Bankes remembered (and this must refer to some actual incident), by a hen, straddling her wings out in protection of a covey of little chicks, upon which Ramsay, stopping,...

—Virginia Woolf

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FriendshipRepetition
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alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

—Virginia Woolf

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AloneCondemnedDeserted
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She had thought of literature all these years (her seclusion, her rank, her sex must be her excuse) as something wild as the wind, hot as fire, swift as lightning; something errant, incalculable, abrupt, and...

—Virginia Woolf

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LiteraturePretensions
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This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl even, these alternations of mood; good days, bad days, for no reason whatever,...

—Virginia Woolf

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HappinessImpressionsMoods
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He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said;...

—Virginia Woolf

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LiesSeptimusSuicide
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Poor little place,’ he murmured with a sigh.She heard him. He said the most melancholy things, but she noticed that directly he had said them he always seemed more cheerful than usual. All this phrase-making...

—Virginia Woolf

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MelancholySuicide
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Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour–landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one’s hair!...

—Virginia Woolf

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AfterlifeLife
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Such was the complexity of things. For what happened to her, especially staying with the Ramsays, was to be made to feel violently two opposite things at the same time; that’s what you feel, was...

—Virginia Woolf

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All raw, uncooked, protesting.”(on Aldous Huxley)

—Virginia Woolf

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AuthorsInsultsWriting
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?

—Virginia Woolf

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