Virginia Woolf Quotes, Granted Quotes

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

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Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

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Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

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I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

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As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

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For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

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I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.

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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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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 [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement.

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The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?

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A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

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One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

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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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At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.

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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

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So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

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How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.

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Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.

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