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Virginia Woolf quotes about life

British Author, Composer, Writer January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941

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Virginia Woolf quote: "I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something..."
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. Virginia Woolf
some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all the forms of life; other are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six Virginia Woolf
Life for most people compels the exercise of the lower gifts and wastes the precious ones, until it forces us to agree that there is little virtue, as well as little profit, in what once seemed to us the noblest part of our inheritance. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value..."
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. Virginia Woolf
I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long - some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies so hideously apparent to me. Out of my suffering I will do it. I will knock. I will enter. Virginia Woolf
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; but a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Is it not the task of the novelist to convey this varying, this unknown and uncircumscribed spirit, whatever aberration or complexity it may display, with as little mixture of the alien and external as possible? Virginia Woolf
That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under drifts of sand, regardless of lures, of seductions; to be poor always and unkempt; to be ridiculous in Piccadilly. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "And then she said to herself, brandishing her sword at life,..."
And then she said to herself, brandishing her sword at life, nonsense. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "What did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it..."
What did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it was very queer. Virginia Woolf
A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her. Virginia Woolf
So the being grows rings; identity becomes robust. What was fiery and furtive like a fling of grain cast into the air and blown hither and thither by wild gusts of life from every quarter is now methodical and orderly and flung with a purpose--so it seems. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still,..."
Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day Virginia Woolf
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "I shall be a clinger to the outsides of worlds all my life."
I shall be a clinger to the outsides of worlds all my life. Virginia Woolf
The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. .. Virginia Woolf

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