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Virginia Woolf quotes

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

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Virginia Woolf quote: "Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do."
Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Well, we must wait for the future to show."
Well, we must wait for the future to show. Virginia Woolf
Yet these roaring waters," said Neville, "upon which we build our crazy platforms are more stable than the wild, the weak and inconsequent cries that we utter when, trying to speak, we rise; when we reason and jerk out these false sayings, 'I am this; I am that!' Speech is false. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Some people make bad bed. They just have to lie in it."
Some people make bad bed. They just have to lie in it. Virginia Woolf
For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying--what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must simply say what one felt. Virginia Woolf
She held in her hands for one brief moment the globe which we spend our lives in trying to shape, round, whole, and entire from the confusion of chaos. Virginia Woolf
He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together. Virginia Woolf
With a brain working and a body working one could keep step with the crowd and never be found out for the hollow machine, lacking the essential thing, that one was conscious of being. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night."
Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night. Virginia Woolf
The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders. Virginia Woolf
The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong. Virginia Woolf
It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would be woven... Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am..."
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write. Virginia Woolf
The impetuous creature--a pirate--started forward, sprang away; she had to hold the rail to steady herself, for a pirate it was, reckless, unscrupulous, bearing down ruthlessly, circumventing dangerously, boldly snatching a passenger, or ignoring a passenger, squeezing eel-like and arrogant in between, and then rushing insolently all sails spread up Whitehall. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and..."
We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human. Virginia Woolf

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