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Virginia Woolf quotes

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

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To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions—there we have none. Virginia Woolf
Her pleasant brown eyes resembled Ralph's, save in expression, for whereas he seemed to look straightly and keenly at one object, she appeared to be in the habit of considering everything from many different points of view. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go..."
The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging. Virginia Woolf
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts. Virginia Woolf
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals. Virginia Woolf
Nobody sees any one as he is, let alone an elderly lady sitting opposite a strange young man in a railway carriage. They see a whole--they see all sorts of things--they see themselves... Virginia Woolf
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. Virginia Woolf
Yet it is true that there was an absent mindedness about her which sometimes made her clumsy; she was apt to think of poetry when she should have been thinking of taffeta; her walk was a little too much of a stride for a woman, perhaps, and her gestures, being abrupt, might endanger a cup of tea on occasion. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Time flaps on the mast--"
Time flaps on the mast-- Virginia Woolf
Somehow the fact that only three or four hundred years ago these skeletons had been men with their way to make in the world like any modern upstart, and that they had made it by acquiring houses and offices, garters and ribbands, as any other upstart does, while poets, perhaps, and men of great mind and breeding had preferred the quietude of the country, for which choice they paid the penalty by extreme poverty, and now hawked broadsheets in the Strand, or herded sheep in the fields, filled... Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Perhaps it was better not to see pictures: they only made one..."
Perhaps it was better not to see pictures: they only made one hopelessly discontented with one's own work. Virginia Woolf
How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking? Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."
Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like..."
Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk. Virginia Woolf
Human relations, at least between the sexes, were carried on as relations between countries are now - with ambassadors, and treaties. The parties concerned met on the great occasion of the proposal. If this were refused, a state of war was declared. Virginia Woolf

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