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Virginia Woolf quotes

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

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Heaven be praised, no one had heard her cry that ignominious cry, stop pain, stop! She had not obviously taken leave of her senses. No one had seen her step off her strip of board into the waters of annihilation. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. Virginia Woolf
All mists curl off the roof of my being. That confidence I shall keep to mydying day. Like a long wave, like a roll of heavy waters, he went over me, his devastating presence - dragging me open, laying bare the pebbleson the shore of my soul. It was humiliating; I was turned to small stones. Virginia Woolf
The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness Virginia Woolf
As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. Virginia Woolf
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Possibly the greatest good requires the existence of a slave..."
Possibly the greatest good requires the existence of a slave class. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "I addressed my self as one would speak to a companion with..."
I addressed my self as one would speak to a companion with whom one is voyaging to the North Pole. Virginia Woolf
The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside. Virginia Woolf
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. Virginia Woolf
It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on. Virginia Woolf
This I say is the present moment; this is the first day of the summer holidays. This is part of the emerging monster to whom we are attached. Virginia Woolf
For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: ". . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest."
. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest. Virginia Woolf
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose. Virginia Woolf

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