Virginia Woolf Quotes, Heart Quotes, Giving Quotes

What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.

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But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

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All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.

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Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

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. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

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I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

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Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone.

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literature is the record of our discontent.

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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

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But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

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And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power as she came across the room, to make the moon, which he detested, rise at Bourton on the terrace in the summer sky.

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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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Intimacy is a difficult art.

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Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

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Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

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But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.

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With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.

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I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.

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