Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

English writer

Lived from: 1882 - 1941

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 25 january 1882 Died: 28 march 1941

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  • Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
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  • My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
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  • Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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  • Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
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  • Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
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  • Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.
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  • On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
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  • Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
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  • One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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  • One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -and one always secretes too much jelly.
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  • One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
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  • One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
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  • Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
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  • Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
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  • Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
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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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  • Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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  • Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
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  • That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
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  • The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
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