Virginia Woolf Quotes, Self Quotes

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

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Oh, I am in love with life!

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Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day

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Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.

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

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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

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...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon that weight. Beautiful and bright it should be on the surface, feathery and evanescent, one colour melting into another like the colours on a butterfly's wing; but beneath the fabric must be clamped together with bolts of iron.

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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.

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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

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Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

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

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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

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I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.

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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

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I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

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I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.

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The way to write well is to live intensely.

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Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.

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He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

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