Virginia Woolf Quotes, Book Quotes, Character Quotes

As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his command Dickens made his books blaze up, not by tightening the plot or sharpening the wit, but by throwing another handful of people upon the fire.

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Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

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In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

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It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

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By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream

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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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No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes

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Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

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I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

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Oh, I am in love with life!

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What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.

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The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

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The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.

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For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, "This is what I have made of it! This!" And what had she made of it? What, indeed?

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My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.

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