Virginia Woolf Quotes, Lying Quotes, Past Quotes

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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O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!

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London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets... To walk alone through London is the greatest rest.

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Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.

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I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?

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It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.

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Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

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fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

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It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

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Life would split apart without letters.

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[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

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I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances and lovely echoes that break and chime from nerve to nerve in our breasts making wild music, false phrases. I have done with phrases.

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But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.

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Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.

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What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

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Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

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He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.

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