Virginia Woolf Quotes, Eye Quotes, Men Quotes

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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People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

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It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

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My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.

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I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement.

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All extremes are dangerous.

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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!

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It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

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In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.

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I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

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Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

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I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

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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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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

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Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

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