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Virginia Woolf quotes

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

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Virginia Woolf quote: "The truth is, I often like women. I like their..."
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I..."
I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older. Virginia Woolf
The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight. Virginia Woolf
Oh may the flood last forever. A virgin lip: no bungalows; as it was in the beginning. Now it’s lead grey with the red leaves in front. Our inland sea. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes,..."
But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the..."
anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "it being her experience that the religious ecstasy made people..."
it being her experience that the religious ecstasy made people callous (so did causes); dulled their feelings Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The..."
First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. Virginia Woolf
And there rose in her an unmastering desire to overcome her; to unmask her. If she could have felled her it would have eased her. But it was not the body; it was the soul and its mockery that she wished to subdue; make feel her mastery. Virginia Woolf
There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to..."
...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me..."
Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob. Virginia Woolf
We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the air and become part of the atmosphere which writers breathe as they work. An influence is created which tells upon them even if it never finds its way into print. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding,..."
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Oh, to awake from dreaming!"
Oh, to awake from dreaming! Virginia Woolf

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