Virginia Woolf Quotes, Sex Quotes, Thinking Quotes

It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that.

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But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

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Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

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For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping.

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The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

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There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.

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First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

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But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

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Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

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

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I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.

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The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water, then we saw the huge blue-black bulk glide quietly under the raft right beneath our feet. It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft.

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

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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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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

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There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

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I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.

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