Virginia Woolf Quotes, Past Quotes

For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.

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Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.

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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

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You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.

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Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

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Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless.

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I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

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what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.

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With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

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Marvelous are the innocent.

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But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

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Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

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Walden - all his books, indeed - are packed with subtle, conflicting, and very fruitful discoveries. They are not written to prove something in the end. They are written as the Indians turn down twigs to mark their path through the forest. He cuts his way through life as if no one had ever taken that road before, leaving these signs for those who come after, should they care to see which way he went.

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Use words that soak up life.

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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.

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