Virginia Woolf Quotes, Illusion Quotes, Praise Quotes

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

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Thinking is my fighting.

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War is not women's history.

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Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)

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Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

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

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Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.

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Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

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I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

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

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It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became one; felt they knew one, in a sense were one; felt an irrational tenderness thus (she looked at that long steady light) as for oneself.

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more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

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To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

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Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

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But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

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Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

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