Virginia Woolf Quotes, Affair Quotes

Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

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Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

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He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

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

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Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

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Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)

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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 teach without zest is a crime.

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Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?

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That complete statement which is literature.

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For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.

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Life's bare as a bone.

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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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Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the

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Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

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