Virginia Woolf Quotes, Spring Quotes, Done Quotes

The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.

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You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?

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History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

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And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

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In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June.

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Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

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We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

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The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.

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To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

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I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

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I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.

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About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

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Life would split apart without letters.

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Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

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To love makes one solitary.

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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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What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

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We insist, it seems, on living.

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Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

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