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At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
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 (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour’s discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
To enjoy freedom... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself... And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan’t recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
Talents of the novelist:... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people’s feelings, personal relations (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent... there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
It’s the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one’s own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections (Virginia Woolf Quotes)