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Virginia Woolf

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
EDWARD ALBEE His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for we...
EVELYN WAUGH I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.
VIRGINIA WOOLF A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little g...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him littl...
SAMUEL JOHNSON And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of bo...
DAVID GEST When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mo...
KIEFER SUTHERLAND My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
JOYCE CAROL OATES At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
IAN MCEWAN For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done befo...
VIRGINIA WOOLF However, the majority of women are neither harlots nor courtesans; nor do they sit clasping pug dogs...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write.
JULIA GLASS The team goes as he goes, but not just by his performance. His enthusiasm and excitement are what ge...
GREG VALASKEY I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemi...
ANDREA BOCELLI I don't know much about him. I'm just interested in finding out about him period. Just what kind of ...
DWAYNE CURTIS Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always neede...
MARY DALY The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, no...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
RITA MAE BROWN I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woo...
FELICITY JONES Who’s happy? Happy is just what people think they are when they can’t find anything to bitch abo...
RASMENIA MASSOUD In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
CARA DELEVINGNE It was this that made him attractive to women, who liked the sense that he was not altogether manly....
VIRGINIA WOOLF My 9-year-old son reads 'Harry Potter' before he goes to bed. Then my wife takes it and reads it, to...
WILLIAM RUBIN The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learne...
LAUREN GROFF Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexu...
RITA MAE BROWN Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream ...
FERNAND MERY An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of ...
ROD LAVER Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
FLEA I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for ...
MICHEL FABER It takes sharper axes to chops bigger trees just as it takes deeper enthusiasm to overcome stronger ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES His mood in the morning depended on what went on at home, but I never met an actor quite like him, ....
ROBERT WISE I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner thi...
SUSAN GLASPELL The very first find out whom he really likes and then what he truly loves in them, on an individual ...
ANUJ SOMANY Whenever anyone reads his words the writer is there. He lives in his readers.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The wonderful thing about Bob Powell is what he does with his research, ... He takes that energy and...
JOAN HARRIS He knows the game, he reads it well. He's a leader out on the field, he's always talking, especially...
JOSE DACOSTA I always joke with him that he raised goats, and that's why he likes all these hikes that are real s...
BILL ANNING If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON He has the experience and knows what it takes. He wants to go further. He just needs to relax and le...
BILL JACKSON I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily l...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER To pursue the thing she needed to do, Virginia Woolf wrote, “a woman must have money and a room of...
ELISABETH EAVES And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If you are losing your leisure, look out! -- It may be you are losing your soul.
VIRGINIA WOOLF From far below mounted the clink and tinkle of distant masonry work, and a sudden train passed betwe...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Everyone I've ever talked to who has played with Josh Beckett says no one likes him. And that's why....
CORY LIDLE If it were true love, he would never make you sacrifice your dignity to be with him. He would respec...
SHANNON L. ALDER I grew up with him the whole time at NBAC. I had more fun with him than anything. He takes the sport...
MEGHAN SACKETT He's a Texas boy, so he likes his meat. And that's what we gave him.
HERBERT SPIEGEL Anybody can do Anything and achieve Everything anywhere; Provided anyone agrees to anything worth CH...
ASHISH SOPHAT So you know, i'm thinking that you can either keep yourself safe and not feel anything, or you can t...
LAUREN MYRACLE When the authorities from West Virginia found out he was in the hospital, West Virginia didn't want ...
JAMES GRAHAM Man is what he reads.
JOSEPH BRODSKY A man will succeed in anything about which he has real enthusiasm, in which he is genuinely interest...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB Anna: You really think he likes me?
Rashmi: Anna. He teases you all the time. It's classic boy-...
STEPHANIE PERKINS The man that is not moved with what he reads,
That takes not fire at their heroic deeds,
Unw...
WILLIAM COWPER At this level, you certainly want to encourage any enthusiasm. It's not worth it being too judgmenta...
MARIELLEN KERR My client didn't fear you. He took the stand. That boy took the stand. I asked him about six questio...
DARNAIL LYLES I think he definitely likes her more than she likes him.
JEFF HOLLAND He will be well received by furniture leaders as they get to know him and the energy and enthusiasm ...
JUDY MENDENHALL This is too complicated. What about I shoot him? If he comes back, he really likes me.
JOHN RINGO The whole clubhouse likes him. He communicates well and really got us to remain focused. He definite...
DAVID NEWHAN They were very fair with the money in the deal. Marvin approached me at the Senior Bowl and said we ...
TONY AGNONE The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile...
MATTHEW ARNOLD As soon as [Dominguez] chirped him, he just explodes. As soon as Ramon asked him to ease up, he ease...
ERNIE PARAGALLO Miles was…the thing is, he was afflicted with a severe birth injury. He grew up pretty much crippl...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD We get on well and it won't be too much trouble spending so much time with him. He has a strange...
ROBBIE KEANE He just kind of takes it as it is, and rolls with the punches. He's very tough.
BUNNIE GLEASON If someone takes your coat, give him your cloak as well; if he makes you go a mile with him, go with...
BIBLE Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear."

"Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices...
CHINA MIéVILLE He was the consummate professional; as good as anyone and better than most at broadcasting baseball....
DAVE VAN HORNE Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wro...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN …when you talk about Mike, you look like a woman who’s talkin’ about a guy she likes. You talk...
KRISTEN ASHLEY It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of...
LISA SNOWDON That was really impressive. That's what he likes to do is stalk. Alex knows him well.
BRUCE HEADLEY Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.
LIN YUTANG What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives ...
EMIL NOLDE I was influenced by big, strong voices - writers like Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles; ...
STACEY D'ERASMO It doesn't hurt him. He likes it.
LYNDON JOHNSON Anyone who worked with Michael knows what a great room-jarring laugh he had. He was your best audien...
DAN DANIEL He played hard, and he hustled. I saw him playing with some enthusiasm ... while everyone else on ou...
GREG KAMPE He can run but don't look for Urban to feature him as a runner as much as he did with Alex Smith. In...
BOB DAVIE I think he's showing everybody he still can do it. Everybody knows his age, but I don't think it mea...
HENRY BLANCO We call him Mr. Enthusiasm. He can talk and get us rowdy.
DARRELLE REVIS On the ice, he's nerves of steel. He has fun out there, but he just likes to stay as focused as he c...
JOE POLO I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.
HAROLD PRINCE Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the ver...
DANIEL H. HILL We're really not going to get into a back and forth about it. The governor respects him, likes him a...
DOUG SCOFIELD He seems enthusiastic about us as instrumentalists and composers. He likes what we do, so he says he...
AARON PARKS I'm so proud of him. I just want to see him finish strong. He lost about 20 pounds in the summer, an...
WATSON BROWN Genius is intensity. The man who gets anything worth having is the man who goes after his object a...
C. HOLMAN I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This wa...
ANNE LAMOTT It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symp...
STEPHEN FRY You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four lang...
RACHAEL LEIGH COOK Anything worth doing is worth doing with excellence.
LORRIN L. LEE He is running as well as anyone I have ever coached. He's just really focused on what he's doing.
CHRIS HANSON 'Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call; For what is worth, in an...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Jeff is a real perfectionist. He likes to do a lot of takes to make sure that we've exhausted everyt...
BEAU BRIDGES I asked him about it, and he didn't say anything, he just looked at the floor.
DANIEL CLARK

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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as w...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It exp...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is writ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by l...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It h...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point
VIRGINIA WOOLF Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of ro...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I...
VIRGINIA WOOLF We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entir...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
VIRGINIA WOOLF These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not abo...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
VIRGINIA WOOLF My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring...
VIRGINIA WOOLF We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by fi...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times....
VIRGINIA WOOLF As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and...
VIRGINIA WOOLF My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compa...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
VIRGINIA WOOLF All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in,...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handlin...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distort...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the poli...
VIRGINIA WOOLF That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Therefore if you insist upon fighting to protect me, or
VIRGINIA WOOLF When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.
VIRGINIA WOOLF We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to fol...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about e...
VIRGINIA WOOLF A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than whe...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doin...
VIRGINIA WOOLF No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
VIRGINIA WOOLF As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
VIRGINIA WOOLF When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It exp...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Books are the mirrors of the soul.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, re...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...
VIRGINIA WOOLF A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as s...
VIRGINIA WOOLF But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority th...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
VIRGINIA WOOLF There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intell...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and w...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be subst...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how o...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locke...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every ye...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and s...
VIRGINIA WOOLF As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of cre...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can on...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in com...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
VIRGINIA WOOLF A strange thing has happened -- while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has be...
VIRGINIA WOOLF There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still posse...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private f...
VIRGINIA WOOLF What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accid...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of E...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, w...
VIRGINIA WOOLF What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secret...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even slee...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only...
VIRGINIA WOOLF In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The first duty of a lecturer--to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap u...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality
VIRGINIA WOOLF The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
VIRGINIA WOOLF The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story o...
VIRGINIA WOOLF All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeate...
VIRGINIA WOOLF This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to...
VIRGINIA WOOLF On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
VIRGINIA WOOLF When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazing...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Language is wine upon the lips.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
VIRGINIA WOOLF A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it mu...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the fi...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figu...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One must love everything.
VIRGINIA WOOLF How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish,...
VIRGINIA WOOLF You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at...
VIRGINIA WOOLF These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one&#...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparen...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bag...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than...
VIRGINIA WOOLF He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman se...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hea...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want a...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury y...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty obser...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all g...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am roo...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One might fancy that day, the London day, was just beginning. Like a woman who had slipped off her p...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.
VIRGINIA WOOLF As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole worl...
VIRGINIA WOOLF How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the sol...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
VIRGINIA WOOLF Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private com...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
VIRGINIA WOOLF If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality o...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
VIRGINIA WOOLF I am rooted, but I flow.
VIRGINIA WOOLF When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLF Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always se...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy...
VIRGINIA WOOLF With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck betwee...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLF One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtl...
VIRGINIA WOOLF What I value is the naked contact of a mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic ac...
VIRGINIA WOOLF All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last,...
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