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Indeed, I would venture to gu...

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

The telephone, which interrup...

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

For what Harley Street specia...

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?

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Thought and theory must prece...

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Somewhere, everywhere, now hi...

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 938 quotes

A good essay must have this p...

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

We are nauseated by the sight...

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

One has to secrete a jelly in...

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Masterpieces are not single a...

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Nothing induces me to read a ...

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

The beautiful seems right by ...

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Blame it or praise it, there ...

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I feel all shadows of the uni...

I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

The only advice ... that one ...

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

To make ideas effective, we m...

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

For now she need not think of...

For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I see you everywhere, in the ...

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

How much better is silence; t...

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Never pretend that the things...

Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

it is strange how the dead le...

it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams

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