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Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 12

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Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

Two, Silence, Chance

Virginia Woolf (1992). “The voyage out”, p.82, Рипол Классик

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Father, Work, Slavery

Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.173

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

Gifted, One Time

Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.136, Virginia Woolf

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Love, Hands, Opposites

Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.70, Oxford University Press, USA

All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

Flower, Fall, Mind

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.604, Wordsworth Editions

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Creativity, Order, Creative

Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Inspirational, Motivational, Men

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2649, Delphi Classics

A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch of the angry professor had been made in anger. Anger had snatched my pencil while I dreamt. But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom--all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning. Had anger, the black snake, been lurking among them? Yes, said the sketch, anger had.

Notebook, Morning, Exercise

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.583, Wordsworth Editions

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

Being In Love, People, Strange

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.873, Delphi Classics

Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.

Inspirational, Pain, Women

"A Moment's Liberty". Book by Virginia Woolf, Wednesday 15 September, 1926, 1990.

Marvelous are the innocent.

Innocent, Marvelous

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

Dust, Arches, Meteors

Virginia Woolf (2006). “Orlando (Annotated): A Biography”, p.146, HMH

We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—

Spirit, Divine, Mouthpiece

Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.143, Oxford University Press, USA

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

Reality, Literature, Disease

Virginia Woolf (2006). “Orlando (Annotated): A Biography”, p.123, HMH

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.

Writing, Reality, Thinking

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2687, Delphi Classics

Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

Art, Writing, Divine

Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1888-1912 (Virginia Stephen)”, Harcourt on Demand

All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence.

Character, Atmosphere, Mind

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2982, Delphi Classics

How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?

Mean, Reality, Feelings

Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”, Harcourt

And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.

Writing, Demand, May

Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.530, Wordsworth Editions

It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together

Hurt, Pain, Mean

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4186, Delphi Classics

The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.

Feelings, Perception, Brain

Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.12, Oxford University Press

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

Believe, Lips, Opinion

Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.187, Lulu Press, Inc

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Years, Mind, Body

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.834, Wordsworth Editions

Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.

Years, Six, Form

"Orlando: A Biography".

Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.

Fall, Doors, Feet

Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.30, Virginia Woolf

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