Virginia Woolf quotes - page 10

If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us? (Virginia Woolf)
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals. View quote
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But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love. View quote
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Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading. View quote
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I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely. View quote
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Marvelous are the innocent. View quote
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For pleasure has no relish unless we share it. View quote
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Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia...' Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women. View quote
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it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams. View quote
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madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged. View quote
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Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk. (Virginia Woolf)
But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing. View quote
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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them. View quote
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Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for. View quote
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When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook-a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases. View quote
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She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust. View quote
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Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely. View quote
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No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes. View quote
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One must love everything. View quote
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to teach without zest is a crime. View quote
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How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking? (Virginia Woolf)
Oh, I am in love with life! View quote
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Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing? View quote
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She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life - one scratched on the wall. View quote
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For we think back through our mothers if we are women. View quote
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