Virginia Woolf quotes - page 7

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. (Virginia Woolf)
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. View quote
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And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking. View quote
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. View quote
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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover. View quote
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I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. View quote
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The flower,' said Bernard, ‘the red carnation that stood in the vase on the table of the restaurant when we dined together with Percival, is become a six-sided flower; made of six lives. View quote
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'. View quote
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. View quote
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Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone. View quote
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I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time. (Virginia Woolf)
She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day. View quote
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What is the meaning of life? That was all - a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one. This, that, and the other. View quote
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So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. View quote
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us. View quote
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me. View quote
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness-I am nothing. View quote
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I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer? View quote
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Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely? View quote
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation. View quote
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She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness. (Virginia Woolf)
I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore. View quote
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To love makes one solitary. View quote
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I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; "the things people don't say. View quote
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful. View quote
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