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I do think all good and evil c...

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

For this is the truth about ou...

For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

The cold stream of visual impr...

The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Without self awareness we are ...

Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

[Final diary entry:] Occupatio...

[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Illusions are to the soul what...

Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Second hand books are wild boo...

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

It is worth mentioning, for fu...

It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Talents of the novelist: ... o...

Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ...

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

If only she could put them tog...

If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

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When, however, one reads of a ...

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . 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 chief glory of a woman is ...

The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

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Women have burnt like beacons ...

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

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Do not move, do not go. Sink w...

Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.

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loveliness is infernally sad....

loveliness is infernally sad.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

every secret of a writer's sou...

every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works, yet we require critics to explain the one and biographers to expound the other. That time hangs heavy on people's hands is the only explanation of the monstrous growth.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

letters are venerable; and the...

letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.

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old emotions like old families...

old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.

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All extremes are dangerous....

All extremes are dangerous.

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Let it be fact, one feels, or ...

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

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