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Nothing thicker than a knife's...

Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

For books continue each other,...

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Yet Byron never made tea as yo...

Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Life stand still here....

Life stand still here.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Yes, she thought, laying down ...

Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

What is the meaning of life? T...

What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

King old ladies assure us that...

King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

It is no use trying to sum peo...

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

What a lark! What a plunge!...

What a lark! What a plunge!

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I meant to write about death, ...

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Let us again pretend that life...

Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatchedЂ'love for instanceЂ'we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Illness is a part of every hum...

Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

But then anyone who's worth an...

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Books are the mirrors of the s...

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Often on a wet day I begin cou...

Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I have lost friends, some by d...

I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

For the young people could not...

For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn...

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

That perhaps is your task--to ...

That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

...the problem of space remain...

...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon that weight. Beautiful and bright it should be on the surface, feathery and evanescent, one colour melting into another like the colours on a butterfly's wing; but beneath the fabric must be clamped together with bolts of iron.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

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