Virginia Woolf Quotes, Morning Quotes, Lying Quotes

I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!

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I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.

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The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.

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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

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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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Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.

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Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

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If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.

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There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

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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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To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.

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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

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

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One must love everything.

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But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

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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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It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

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A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

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

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