Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
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For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.
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The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.
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Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?
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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
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A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one
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There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?
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I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.
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I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married
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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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The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now— James looked at the Lighthouse. He could see the white-washed rocks; the tower, stark and straight; he could see that it was barred with black and white; he could see windows in it; he could even see washing spread on the rocks to dry. So that was the Lighthouse, was it? No, the other was also the Lighthouse. For nothing was simply one thing. The other Lighthouse was true too.
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No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.
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Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
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With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.
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Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
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more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.
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I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.