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To stand in a great bookshop c...

To stand in a great bookshop crammed with books so new that their pages almost stick together, and the gilt on their backs is still fresh, has an excitement no less delightful than the old excitement of the second-hand bookstall.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I was so pleased and excited b...

I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

to teach without zest is a cri...

to teach without zest is a crime.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Now the writer, I think, has t...

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I really don't advise a woman ...

I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Whenever you see a board up wi...

Whenever you see a board up with 'Trespassers will be prosecuted,' trespass at once.

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Would there be trees if we did...

Would there be trees if we didn't see them?

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Am I a weed, carried this way,...

Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Wine has a drastic, an astring...

Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

The interest in life does not ...

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

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The large shiny black forehead...

The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water, then we saw the huge blue-black bulk glide quietly under the raft right beneath our feet. It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Surely it was time someone inv...

Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

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Biography is to give a man som...

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

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All women together ought to le...

All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

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Love and religion! thought Cla...

Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!

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It is part of the novelist's c...

It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance...

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If behind the erratic gunfire ...

If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.

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... if we can imagine the art ...

... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.

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There is no room for the impur...

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.

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Middlemarch, the magnificent b...

Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....