Virginia Woolf Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Bird Quotes

scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.

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Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl these monsters leave, the waters rocking, the weeds waving and green here, black there, striking to the sand, till by degrees the atoms reassemble, the deposit sifts itself, and a gain through the eyes one sees clear and still, and there comes to the lips some prayer for the departed, some obsequy for the souls of those one nods to, the one never meets again.

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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

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But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

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

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Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

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But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

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She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.

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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

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

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Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

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Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that

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The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

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Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some sort of warmth,one subterfuge was tried after anothersentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics.

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I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.

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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

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I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

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