Virginia Woolf Quotes, Reading Quotes, Air Quotes

Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable sensations for a reader (since nothing is more dismal than to open the door and get no response).

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to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

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The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.

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

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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

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Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep.

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Still, life had a way of adding day to day

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Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

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Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

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Women alone stir my imagination.

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loveliness is infernally sad.

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Life would split apart without letters.

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Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.

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For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.

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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.

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Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.

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To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

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You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

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And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

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There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.

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