Virginia Woolf Quotes, Crafts Quotes

Life stand still here.

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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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

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

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How can I express the darkness?

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Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some sort of warmth,one subterfuge was tried after anothersentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics.

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But why do I notice everything? She thought. Why must I think? She did not want to think. She wanted to force her mind to become a blank and lie back, and accept quietly, tolerantly, whatever came.

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Nothing, I know, had any chance against death.

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One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

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I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

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To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

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If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to being hopeless, though: only the spectacle is a profoundly strange one; and as the current answers don’t do, one has to grope for a new one, and the process of discarding the old, when one is by no means certain what to put in their place, is a sad one.

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But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.

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

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I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement.

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Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.

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I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!

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After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.

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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

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For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

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