Virginia Woolf Quotes, Spring Quotes, Writing Quotes

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

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A light here required a shadow there.

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Only longing can fill with more of itself.

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

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Well, we must wait for the future to show.

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Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.

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Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

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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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First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

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In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it not possible -- I often wonder -- that things we have felt with great intensity have an existence independent of our minds; are in fact still in existence? And if so, will it not be possible, in time, that some device will be invented by which we can tap them?

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It is no use trying to sum people up.

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Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.

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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

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I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.

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loveliness is infernally sad.

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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

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

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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

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