Virginia Woolf Quotes, Past Quotes, Choices Quotes

There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

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I am rooted, but I flow.

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

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The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably yet quietly, she seemed like the champion of the rights of sleepers, like one of those spectral presences which rise in twilight in woods made of sky and branches. The solitary traveler, haunter of lanes, disturber of ferns, and devastator of hemlock plants, looking up, suddenly sees the giant figure at the end of the ride.

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And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

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Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

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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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It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

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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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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

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Life's bare as a bone.

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She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.

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It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

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How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?

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loveliness is infernally sad.

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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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It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

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