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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  • The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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  • The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
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  • The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
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  • The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
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  • The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
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  • The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
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  • The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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  • The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
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  • There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
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  • There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
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  • These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
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  • Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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  • This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
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  • Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
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  • To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
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  • To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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  • Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.
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  • We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on
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  • We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
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  • We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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