Virginia Woolf Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Facts Quotes

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

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Love had a thousand shapes.

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I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that.

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I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.

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Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

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I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.

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It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

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But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

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Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

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... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

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For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

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No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

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Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.

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I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

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It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

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They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.

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