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Anyone who has the temerity to...

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

To look life in the face, alwa...

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

But I beneath a rougher sea, A...

But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

A learned man is a sedentary, ...

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more h

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

There is no doubt in my mind, ...

There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

You have been in every way all...

You have been in every way all that anyone could be.... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

The history of most women is h...

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

You can't think how I depend o...

You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

For they might be parted for h...

For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I prefer men to cauliflowers...

I prefer men to cauliflowers

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Intellectual freedom depends u...

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

To put it in a nutshell, he wa...

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

A million candles burnt in him...

A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Anything may happen when woman...

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

It is strange how a scrap of p...

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Up here my eyes are green leav...

Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

There was a star riding throug...

There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

The real novelist, the perfect...

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Now begins to rise in me the f...

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

And the poem, I think, is only...

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

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

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