Virginia Woolf Quotes, Reality Quotes, Light Quotes

What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

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Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

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Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human 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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I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

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Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

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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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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

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She fell into a deep pool of sticky water, which eventually closed over her head. She saw nothing and heard nothing but a faint booming sound, which was the sound of the sea rolling over her head. While all her tormentors thought that she was dead, she was not dead, but curled up at the bottom of the sea.

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If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.

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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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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

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It is no use trying to sum people up.

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So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again.

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The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

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I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.

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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.

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But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

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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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But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.

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