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Virginia Woolf quotes

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

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Virginia Woolf quote: "Fending for oneself alone on a desert island is really no..."
Fending for oneself alone on a desert island is really no laughing matter. It is no crying one either Virginia Woolf
The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark Virginia Woolf
As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do our part; mitigate the suffering of our fellow-prisoners; decorate the dungeon with flowers and air-cushions; be as decent as we possibly can. Virginia Woolf
Now, again, he paused, and into the breach thus made, leapt Ambition, the harridan, and Poetry, the witch, and Desire of Fame, the strumpet; all joined hands and made of his heart their dancing ground. Virginia Woolf
They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within. Virginia Woolf
For how would you like to be shut up for a whole month at a time, and possibly more in stormy weather, upon a rock the size of a tennis lawn? Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Clarissa said she would buy the flowers herself."
Clarissa said she would buy the flowers herself. Virginia Woolf
One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely."
I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely. Virginia Woolf
the thought process:"It swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among the reflections and the weeds, letting the water lift it and sink it, until - you know the little tug - the sudden conglomeration of an idea at the end of one's line: and then the cautious hauling of it in, and the careful laying of it out?" p.5 Virginia Woolf
The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder. Virginia Woolf
Indeed he seemed to her sometimes made differently from other people, born blind, deaf, and dumb, to the ordinary things, but to the extraordinary things, with an eye like an eagle's. Virginia Woolf
No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are..."
Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? Virginia Woolf

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