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Virginia Woolf

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
EDWARD ALBEE Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always neede...
MARY DALY It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write.
JULIA GLASS 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 anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
RITA MAE BROWN I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemi...
ANDREA BOCELLI It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexu...
RITA MAE BROWN An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of ...
ROD LAVER The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
CARA DELEVINGNE For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly f...
PAUL ANKA I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by ac...
ROBERT REDFORD It was this that made him attractive to women, who liked the sense that he was not altogether manly....
VIRGINIA WOOLF I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.
VIRGINIA WOOLF What makes me feel good is all of the people that rooted for A.I. get a chance to say, 'He did w...
ALLEN IVERSON She was so far absorbed in this work, for it was really difficult to find how all these sounds shoul...
NICOLE ARLYN Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and wh...
LEV GROSSMAN To pursue the thing she needed to do, Virginia Woolf wrote, “a woman must have money and a room of...
ELISABETH EAVES A child is convinced that he is loved, NOT because he KNOWS it; it is because he FEELS it
JOHN B. BEJO No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway&#...
J. G. BALLARD When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mo...
KIEFER SUTHERLAND In fairness, I think Bush knew he would get blamed for Virginia, one way or another. Given that, the...
HOWARD WOLFSON It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT 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 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virgin...
LILY KOPPEL To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, bu...
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of ...
JAMES ALLEN Mind is the Master/power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of T...
JAMES ALLEN Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, a...
EDMUND WHITE Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and evermore he takes the Tool of Th...
JAMES ALLEN They say it feels like a dream because some have never owned a suit. The clients are really apprecia...
KATY ZANE It feels great, what more can you say? The first championship was definitely irreplaceable, but it f...
MATT CATHELL It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learne...
LAUREN GROFF Part of me wanted to say, 'It wasn't yours, it was mine.' But it's part of that iconic relationship....
CRIS WILLIAMSON One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what ...
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
CARDINAL J. NEWMAN It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
CARDINAL NEWMAN It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a for...
MICHAEL PALIN See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS A dignified person is identified for the positive contributions he makes. He feels fulfilled because...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA He was counting. All I heard him say was ,'One one-thousand,' but I think he forgot the other four.
JALEN ROSE Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say somethi...
FLORENCE WELCH It really caught me off guard. I never really thought about it. I guess that's what you work for. It...
JULIE MOLLOY We never ever thought about going unbeaten. It just kind of happened. We took it one game at a time ...
JALEESA ROSS The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for math...
GRAHAM GREENE 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 Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I re...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM It feels great everything finally paid off. I never thought it would lead me to this.
JOE CONTI What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousan...
G.F. SMITH A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woo...
FELICITY JONES I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I never thought Howard Stern would say 'Paul Anka is cool.' But he did,
PAUL ANKA It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made...
CALVIN JOHNSON It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves unde...
PAUL TOURNIER accepted his idea that the audience for a quality novel might not be large enough to support the aut...
JANE SMILEY A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.
JACK CLEARY A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.
ANONYMOUS How many stopped-up men and women does it take to produce one Einstein? Ten? A thousand? A hundred t...
RANA DASGUPTA I’ve lived what feels like a thousand years to feel your kiss but my little mate, I’m in charge....
K.A. CROSS There is no way to imagine what it feels like to be shot at. I will never be with him when he is the...
MELISSA SELIGMAN Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he f...
FRAN LEBOWITZ All I really want is one outside opinion. They say, "He who has two watches never knows what time it...
RICHARD PRICE One’s happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY It feels pretty good. As a kid, I never thought this would happen to me to tell you the truth.
JUSTIN ANDERSON Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
LEO TOLSTOY 'Fiancee' is a very fun word to say, because I never thought I would have a fiancee or be a ...
KIRSTEN VANGSNESS While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming s...
HENRY C. LINK Even though [doctors] say they talk about the dangers of pregnancy, it never registers what they're ...
JANE PERILLO He never asked me what I thought, and I never told him what I thought, because in my view that's the...
JANET MALCOLM It feels pretty good to me because this is what I'm strong at.
CORY SMITH A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY He feels excited. He feels ashamed. He wants to talk to her, but he is afraid. Maybe he imagined it ...
NAOMI ALDERMAN Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he f...
FRAN LEBOWITZ You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it...
PATRICK DEWITT

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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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