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Virginia Woolf Quotes

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? Picture Quote #1

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I’ve read and what I haven’t read Picture Quote #1

For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is... at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one Picture Quote #1

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road Picture Quote #1

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet Picture Quote #1

For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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It is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older Picture Quote #1

Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves Picture Quote #1

His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities... and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life Picture Quote #1

If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women Picture Quote #1

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My notion’s to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves Picture Quote #1

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it’s place? Picture Quote #1

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small Picture Quote #1

I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me Picture Quote #1

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable Picture Quote #1

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust Picture Quote #1

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I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother Picture Quote #1

The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded Picture Quote #1

I really don’t advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married Picture Quote #1

Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling? Picture Quote #1

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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? (Virginia Woolf Quotes) Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I’ve read and what I haven’t read (Virginia Woolf Quotes) For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn (Virginia Woolf Quotes) 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 (Virginia Woolf Quotes) 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 (Virginia Woolf Quotes) To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is... at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away (Virginia Woolf Quotes) 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 (Virginia Woolf Quotes) A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one (Virginia Woolf Quotes) It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road (Virginia Woolf Quotes) Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet (Virginia Woolf Quotes) For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing (Virginia Woolf Quotes) 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 (Virginia Woolf Quotes) It is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams (Virginia Woolf Quotes) 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 (Virginia Woolf Quotes) I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older (Virginia Woolf Quotes) Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves (Virginia Woolf Quotes) His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities... and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life (Virginia Woolf Quotes) If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women (Virginia Woolf Quotes) My notion’s to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves (Virginia Woolf Quotes) Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it’s place? (Virginia Woolf Quotes) Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small (Virginia Woolf Quotes) I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me (Virginia Woolf Quotes) There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable (Virginia Woolf Quotes) Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust (Virginia Woolf Quotes) I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother (Virginia Woolf Quotes) The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded (Virginia Woolf Quotes) I really don’t advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married (Virginia Woolf Quotes) Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning? (Virginia Woolf Quotes) 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 (Virginia Woolf Quotes) How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling? (Virginia Woolf Quotes)

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