Virginia Woolf Quotes, Lying Quotes, Past Quotes

Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees ... one's happiness, one's reality?

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No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

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People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

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As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

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The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.

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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

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Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?

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In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.

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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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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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... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.

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I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

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A light here required a shadow there.

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and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

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But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.

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Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.

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

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The poet is always our contemporary.

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Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.

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For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

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