Virginia Woolf Quotes, Stars Quotes, Matter Quotes

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

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And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.

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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.

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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.

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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

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For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

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They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

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I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

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And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

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When she read just now to James, 'and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets,' and his eyes darkened, she thought, why should they grow up, and lose all that?

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The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

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How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

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The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

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I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

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Thoughts without words… Can that be?

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Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word that he writes ... He is without doubt the prince of his profession.

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