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We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.
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History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
Virginia Woolf
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
Virginia Woolf -
I have had my vision.
Virginia Woolf -
As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.
Virginia Woolf -
It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.
Virginia Woolf -
Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.
Virginia Woolf -
For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.
Virginia Woolf
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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf -
I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
Virginia Woolf -
Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.
Virginia Woolf -
The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.
Virginia Woolf