Virginia Woolf quotes - page 8

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure. (Virginia Woolf)
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger? View quote
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. View quote
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Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty - it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life - froze it. View quote
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. View quote
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me. View quote
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately. View quote
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I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific. View quote
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy. View quote
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It is no use trying to sum people up. View quote
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, a potting shed, a wall where peaches ripen, than to burn like meteor and leave no dust. (Virginia Woolf)
When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred. View quote
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people. View quote
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong. View quote
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What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was. View quote
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older. View quote
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Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? View quote
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He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together. View quote
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But when we sit together, close,' said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory. View quote
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems. View quote
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I prefer men to cauliflowers. (Virginia Woolf)
Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision. View quote
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Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness. View quote
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Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped. View quote
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for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge. View quote
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