Virginia Woolf Quotes, Silence Quotes

One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.

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Life would split apart without letters.

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I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

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The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.

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I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

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Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.

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

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Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

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Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.

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They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

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Fear no more, says the heart.

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Language is wine upon the lips.

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