Virginia Woolf Quotes, Book Quotes, Self Quotes

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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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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Thinking is my fighting.

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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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Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

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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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And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

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The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

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Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.

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Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.

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If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties.

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Wat a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever.

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Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

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Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

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Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

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