Virginia Woolf Quotes, Eye Quotes, Glasses Quotes

Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer, but only that shell of a person which is seen by other people - what an airless, shallow, bald, prominent world it becomes! A world not to be lived in. As we face each other in omnibuses and underground railways we are looking into the mirror that accounts for the vagueness, the gleam of glassiness, in our eyes.

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The truer the facts the better the fiction.

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There'll be oceans of talk and emotions without end.

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Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

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It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.

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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

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I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.

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

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Use words that soak up life.

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A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.

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But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.

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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

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... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.

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Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

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Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself is surely the most desirable of houses. Our modern house with its cumbersome walls and its foundations planted deep in the ground is nothing better than a prison and more and more prison like does it become the longer we live there, and wear fetters of a association and sentiment.

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I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

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Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

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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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