Virginia Woolf quotes - page 15

All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others. (Virginia Woolf)
some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all the forms of life; other are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six. View quote
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world. View quote
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... clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude. View quote
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Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read. View quote
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There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one? View quote
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... she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. View quote
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anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm. View quote
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. View quote
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We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep. View quote
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for women live much more in the past... they attach themselves to places. (Virginia Woolf)
I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. View quote
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. View quote
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When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker. View quote
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I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded. View quote
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A State of Mind. Woke up perhaps at 3. Oh its beginning it coming – the horror – physically like a painful wave swelling about the heart – tossing me up. I'm unhappy unhappy! Down – God, I wish I were dead. View quote
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The trumpeters, ranging themselves side by side in order, blow one terrific blast: - 'THE TRUTH! at which Orlando woke. View quote
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But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything. Little words that broke up the thought and dismembered it said nothing. 'About life, about death; about Mrs Ramsay. View quote
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Mrs Swithin took her knitting from the table. 'Did you feel,' she asked, 'what he said: we act different parts but are the same?' 'Yes,' Isa answered. 'No,' she added. It was Yes, No. Yes, yes, yes, the tide rushed out embracing. No, no, no, it contracted. View quote
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I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow. View quote
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Life stand still here, Mrs. Ramsay said. (Virginia Woolf)
Literature is open to everybody. I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass. Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. View quote
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Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob. View quote
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Unless I am myself, I am nobody. View quote
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Life is difficult; facts uncompromising; and the passage to that fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder in darkness, one that needs, above all, courage, truth, and the power to endure. View quote
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