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Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.] (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
Thus the British Empire came into existence; and thus - for there is no stopping damp; it gets into the inkpot as it gets into the woodwork - sentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics, and little trifles that had been essays a column long were now encyclopaedias in ten or twenty volumes. (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
Safe! safe! safe!’ the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry ‘Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart. (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold. (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
She felt as if things were moving past her as she lay stretched on the bed under the single sheet. But it’s not landscape any longer, she thought; it’s people’s lives, their changing lives. (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people’s feelings, personal relations ... (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
No, I’m not clever. I’ve always cared more for people than for ideas. (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)
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)
In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house ... (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and shehim. (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours. (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
Despairing of human relationships (people were so difficult), she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which men and women never gave her. (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 desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams (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)
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf ... who’s afraid of living life without false illusions. (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can’t cross: that it’s to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish. (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street. (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)
... like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face ... (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that’s what I call hard work. (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber. (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
The mind is the most capricious of insects - flitting, fluttering (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
I am rooted, but I flow (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
Why are women. So much more interesting to men than men are to women? (Virginia Woolf Quotes)
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue (Virginia Woolf Quotes)