Virginia Woolf Quotes, Reading Quotes, Delight Quotes

To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

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What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

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For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

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One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there?

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One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

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Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

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Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

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Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the waves came the voices of birds singing.

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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

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Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

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She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.

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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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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

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The poet is always our contemporary.

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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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In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

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I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

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I am rooted, but I flow.

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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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