Virginia Woolf Quotes, Fall Quotes, Long Quotes

Altogether, the task of estimating the length of human life is beyond our capacity, for directly we say that it is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

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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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Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

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When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

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Language is wine upon the lips.

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All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.

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Life stand still here.

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... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.

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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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There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?

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To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

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I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

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A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch of the angry professor had been made in anger. Anger had snatched my pencil while I dreamt. But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom--all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning. Had anger, the black snake, been lurking among them? Yes, said the sketch, anger had.

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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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As a woman, I have no country

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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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So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.

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

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You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

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