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Mental fight means thinking a...

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

One of the signs of passing y...

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

There is much to support the ...

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 938 quotes

I can only note that the past...

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Fiction is like a spider's we...

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

To depend upon a profession i...

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

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I thought how unpleasant it i...

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Literature is strewn with the...

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

You cannot find peace by avoi...

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

It is fatal to be a man or wo...

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Life is not a series of gig l...

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

The beauty of the world has tw...

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

All great writers have, of cou...

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.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I remember I would not stand s...

I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my attention. I would never cease to look around me and observe myself in relation to nature: either crystal clear skies and sun-melting afternoons, or foggy winter days and weirdly tinted nights. I would never cease to dream and stand by the window, ready to let the diversity of life pass freely through my skin; courageous enough to believe I stood a chance in devouring each shade of sensation.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Our apparitions, the things yo...

Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

It was odd, she thought, how i...

It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became one; felt they knew one, in a sense were one; felt an irrational tenderness thus (she looked at that long steady light) as for oneself.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Mrs. Dalloway said she would b...

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Few people ask from books what...

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Other people have faces; Susan...

Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They say Yes, they say No; whereas I shift and change and am seen through in a second. If they meet a housemaid she looks at them without laughing. But she laughs at me. They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and do what other people do when they have done it.

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

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