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Virginia Woolf Quotes

But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came Picture Quote #1

But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes; also to some nervous fibre, or fanlike membrane in my species Picture Quote #1

But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf Picture Quote #1

... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony Picture Quote #1

How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers Picture Quote #1

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously Picture Quote #1

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It’s rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it’s Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends Picture Quote #1

I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time Picture Quote #1

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible Picture Quote #1

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for? Picture Quote #1

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant Picture Quote #1

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together Picture Quote #1

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If you’re writing an opinion piece, it’s your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A middle-aged woman who looked like someone’s cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn’t add up. Suicide wasn’t invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool Picture Quote #1

I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels Picture Quote #1

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Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began? Picture Quote #1

I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement Picture Quote #1

What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice Picture Quote #1

Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day Picture Quote #1

The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments Picture Quote #1

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs? Picture Quote #1

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Why does Samuel Butler say, ‘Wise men never say what they think of women’? Wise men never say anything else apparently Picture Quote #1

I feel certain that I’m going mad again, I feel we can’t go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time. I begin to hear voices Picture Quote #1

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself Picture Quote #1

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One’s Mind about Another Person Picture Quote #1

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. ‘Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life Picture Quote #1

After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all Picture Quote #1

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But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came (Virginia Woolf Quotes) But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes; also to some nervous fibre, or fanlike membrane in my species (Virginia Woolf Quotes) But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf (Virginia Woolf Quotes) ... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony (Virginia Woolf Quotes) How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers (Virginia Woolf Quotes) Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously (Virginia Woolf Quotes) It’s rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it’s Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends (Virginia Woolf Quotes) I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time (Virginia Woolf Quotes) Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible (Virginia Woolf Quotes) My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for? (Virginia Woolf Quotes) This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant (Virginia Woolf Quotes) For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together (Virginia Woolf Quotes) If you’re writing an opinion piece, it’s your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions (Virginia Woolf Quotes) 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 (Virginia Woolf Quotes) Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals (Virginia Woolf Quotes) 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 (Virginia Woolf Quotes) A middle-aged woman who looked like someone’s cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn’t add up. Suicide wasn’t invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool (Virginia Woolf Quotes) I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels (Virginia Woolf Quotes) Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began? (Virginia Woolf Quotes) I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement (Virginia Woolf Quotes) What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice (Virginia Woolf Quotes) Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day (Virginia Woolf Quotes) The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments (Virginia Woolf Quotes) If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs? (Virginia Woolf Quotes) Why does Samuel Butler say, ‘Wise men never say what they think of women’? Wise men never say anything else apparently (Virginia Woolf Quotes) I feel certain that I’m going mad again, I feel we can’t go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time. I begin to hear voices (Virginia Woolf Quotes) How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself (Virginia Woolf Quotes) Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One’s Mind about Another Person (Virginia Woolf Quotes) By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. ‘Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life (Virginia Woolf Quotes) After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all (Virginia Woolf Quotes)

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