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Virginia Woolf quotes

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

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For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us. Virginia Woolf
In the Queen's prayerbook, along with theblood-stain, was also a lock of hair and a crumb of pastry; Orlando nowadded to these keepsakes a flake of tobacco, and so, reading and smoking, was moved by the humane jumble of them all--the hair, the pastry, theblood-stain, the tobacco--to such a mood of contemplation as gave her areverent air suitable in the circumstances, though she had, it is said, no traffic with the usual God. Virginia Woolf
The sky is blue,' he said, 'the grass is green.' Looking up, he saw that, on the contrary, the sky is like the veils which a thousand Madonnas have let fall from their hair; and the grass fleets and darkens like a flight of girls fleeing the embraces of hairy satyrs from enchanted woods. 'Upon my word,' he said [...], 'I don't see that one's more true than another. Both are utterly false. Virginia Woolf
Emerged from the tentative ways, the obscurities and dazzle of youth, we look straight in front of us, ready for what may come (the door opens, the door keeps on opening). All is real; all is firm without shadow orillusion. Beauty rides our brows. Virginia Woolf
to possess one single thing (it is Louis now) must waver, like the light in and out of the beech leaves; and then words, moving darkly, in the depths of your mind will break up this knot of hardness, screwed in your pocket-handkerchief. Virginia Woolf
When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better--her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties Virginia Woolf
For now that Aphra Behn had done it, girls could go to their parents and say, You need not give me an allowance; I can make money by my pen. Virginia Woolf
Unpraised, I find it hard to start writing in the morning; but the dejection lasts only 30 minutes, and once I start I forget all about it. One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, a silence there;[...] the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art. Virginia Woolf
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "He was afraid he did not understand beauty apart form human..."
He was afraid he did not understand beauty apart form human beings. Virginia Woolf
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the... Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking..."
So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most..."
If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us? Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and..."
It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road. Virginia Woolf
Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was, however; there she was. Virginia Woolf

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