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One should aim, seriously, at ...

One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

... pure honesty is a doubtful...

... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

... I doubt the capacity of th...

... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

What a comfort is friendship i...

What a comfort is friendship in this world.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Writing is a divine art, and t...

Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I find that when I've seen a c...

I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

There was a day when I liked w...

There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

As I grow old I hate the writi...

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

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... why do people who live in ...

... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?

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I don't believe that you can p...

I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

As for 'drawing you out,' plea...

As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Why does one write these books...

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

As nobody can possibly tell me...

As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

... like all very handsome men...

... like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face ...

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Here I come to one of the memo...

Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

In certain favorable moods, me...

In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it not possible -- I often wonder -- that things we have felt with great intensity have an existence independent of our minds; are in fact still in existence? And if so, will it not be possible, in time, that some device will be invented by which we can tap them?

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Speech is an old torn net, thr...

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

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After all, what is a lovely ph...

After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

You cannot cross the narrow br...

You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind ...

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It doesn't have to be the trut...

It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

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