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Virginia Woolf quotes

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

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Virginia Woolf quote: "Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make..."
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Now then is my chance to find out what is of great importance,..."
Now then is my chance to find out what is of great importance, and Imust be careful, and tell no lies. Virginia Woolf
I, who am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement, make this mark, waiting for some winter's evening. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence"
Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence Virginia Woolf
Poor little place,' he murmured with a sigh. She heard him. He said the most melancholy things, but she noticed that directly he had said them he always seemed more cheerful than usual. All this phrase-making was a game, she thought, for if she had said half what he said, she would have blown her brains out by now. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter..."
I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me. Virginia Woolf
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: " a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of..."
... a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes. Virginia Woolf
Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth..."
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged..."
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "The common fund of experience is very deep."
The common fund of experience is very deep. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy."
It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy. Virginia Woolf
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry. Virginia Woolf
The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is throughour eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflicton the world the injury of some obliquity. This is lif? Virginia Woolf

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