Virginia Woolf Quotes, Artist Quotes, Criticism Quotes

Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

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It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.

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Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.

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Thinking is my fighting.

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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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Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.

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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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Intimacy is a difficult art.

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The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.

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

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Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.

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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.

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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

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How remorseless life is!

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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

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Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes. Any help we can give you must be different from that you can give yourselves, and perhaps the value of that help may lie in the fact of that difference.

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