Virginia Woolf Quotes, Determination Quotes, Book Quotes

It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.

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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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There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?

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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

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To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

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You have been in every way all that anyone could be.... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.

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Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than any words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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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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How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?

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Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.

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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

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Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

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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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Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

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We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

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She began framing the words of her telegram into a senseless singsong; so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favourable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace which she wore.

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And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

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