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Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 33

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Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

Wings, Ideas, Nails

In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it not possible -- I often wonder -- that things we have felt with great intensity have an existence independent of our minds; are in fact still in existence? And if so, will it not be possible, in time, that some device will be invented by which we can tap them?

Memories, Independent, Mind

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

Ebb And Flow, Veins, Unhappiness

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.818, Delphi Classics

Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

Integrity, Facts, Process

Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.95, Oxford University Press

In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.

People, House, Independence

Virginia Woolf (1996). “Mrs Dalloway”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions

Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

Literature, Way, Common

Virginia Woolf (1992). “A woman's essays: selected essays, volume one”

His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life.

Dream, Eye, Reality

Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)

Woven, Violet, Said

Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.103, Virginia Woolf

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

Thinking, Ideas, Care

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.222, Delphi Classics

It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.

Reading, Mean, Boys

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Ao farol: To the lighthouse: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.208, Editora Landmark LTDA

After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.

Lovely, Phrases

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

The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often, alas, acts the cannibal among the other faculties so that often, where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Heart, Tolerance, Mind

That complete statement which is literature.

Literature, Statements

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2406, Delphi Classics

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

Speech, Torn, Casts

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2014, Delphi Classics

Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.

Growing Up, Angel, Two

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1028, Delphi Classics

I am obsessed at nights with the idea of my own worthlessness, and if it were only to turn a light on to save my life I think I would not do it. These are the last footprints of a headache I suppose. Do you ever feel that? - like an old weed in a stream. What do you feel, lying in bed?

Weed, Lying, Night

Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1931”

Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought—making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share—it smashed to atoms.

Girl, Fun, Creating

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.161, Wordsworth Editions

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