Virginia Woolf Quotes, Sex Quotes, Opposites Quotes

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

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[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

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Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

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A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one

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I will go down with my colours flying.

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After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

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But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

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Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?

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Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

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To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

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Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.

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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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The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

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It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

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The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

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Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.

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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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A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.

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