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Virginia Woolf Quotes - Page 7

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And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

Thinking, Voice

Virginia Woolf (2011). “The Waves (海浪)”, p.126, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

Spring, Writing, Practice

Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.344, Lulu Press, Inc

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

Humility, Dark, Men

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.447, Wordsworth Editions

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

Eye, Mind, Vain

Virginia Woolf, Michèle Barrett (1979). “Women and writing”, Womens Pr Ltd

Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

Play, Support, Soul

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2281, Delphi Classics

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Tragedy, Hungry, Hours

Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.140, Virginia Woolf

I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

Mind, Chaos, Absurd

It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

Spiritual, Mind, Intimacy

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.37, Wordsworth Editions

The truer the facts the better the fiction.

Fiction, Facts

Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.12, Oxford University Press, USA

Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

Heart, Light, Treasure

Virginia Woolf (2015). “Monday or Tuesday”, p.5, Virginia Woolf

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Travel, Women, Speech

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2260, Delphi Classics

How remorseless life is!

Life Is, Remorseless

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.175, Wordsworth Editions

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

Dream, Waking, Life Is

Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Women, Interesting, Feminism

A Room of One's Own ch. 2 (1929)

The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

Strong, Passion, Light

Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.79, Broadview Press

The artist after all is a solitary being.

Artist, Solitary

Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Stars, Matter, Affair

Virginia Woolf (2016). “Night and Day”, p.170, Virginia Woolf

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Women, Truth Is, Completeness

Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.84, Oxford University Press, USA

I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

Brain, Rooms

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4339, Delphi Classics

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Frivolous, Ifs

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.603, Wordsworth Editions

I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

Age, Found

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.521, Wordsworth Editions

We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.

Art, Mystery, Danger

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.

Beautiful, Women, Mean

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.590, Wordsworth Editions

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

Divine, Bookcases

Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.184, Virginia Woolf

Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

Hate, Three, Plies

Virginia Woolf (2016). “Between the Acts”, p.64, Virginia Woolf

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