Virginia Woolf quotes - page 3

Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise. (Virginia Woolf)
You cannot find peace by avoiding life. View quote
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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. View quote
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If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? View quote
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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. View quote
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual. View quote
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Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence. View quote
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Books are the mirrors of the soul. View quote
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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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What does the brain matter compared with the heart? View quote
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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence. (Virginia Woolf)
For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver. View quote
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The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it. View quote
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning. View quote
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams. View quote
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky. View quote
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels. View quote
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About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone. View quote
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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? View quote
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The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. View quote
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So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea. (Virginia Woolf)
Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying - what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt. View quote
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are. View quote
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Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall. View quote
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To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality. View quote
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