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Virginia Woolf quotes

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

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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied? Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary..."
I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Do not dictate to your author try to become him. Be his..."
Do not dictate to your author try to become him. Be his fellow-worker and accomplice. Virginia Woolf
to let the light of the world flood back-to say this has not happened! But why turn one's head hither and thither? This is the truth. This is fact. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "They neither work nor weep; in their shape is their reason."
They neither work nor weep; in their shape is their reason. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery..."
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of..."
For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with..."
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the..."
There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind..."
It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly. Virginia Woolf
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "He would look over the edge of the sofa down into the sea."
He would look over the edge of the sofa down into the sea. Virginia Woolf
Had they not been taken, she asked, to circuses when they were children? Never, he answered, as if she asked the very thing he wanted; had been longing all these days to say, how they did not go to circuses. Virginia Woolf
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say. Virginia Woolf
They do not understand that that I have to effect different transitions; have to cover the entrances and exits of several different men who alternately act their parts as Bernard. Virginia Woolf

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