Virginia Woolf Quotes

Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.

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To know whom to write for is to know how to write.

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[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

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There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

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Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

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Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

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Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

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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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Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

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So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again.

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A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

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Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

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For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.

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

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I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

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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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Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.

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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

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