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Virginia Woolf Inspirational Quotes (717)

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So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball
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Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.
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There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
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It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
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And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.
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I press to my centre, and find there is something there.
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Words belong to each other.
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The world is crammed with delightful things
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Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.
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I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.
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The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.
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It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling it always broke down at the critical moment heroically, one must force it on.
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Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.
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It is the duty of the writer to describe.
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When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.
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Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.
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A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
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There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.
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For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.
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So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.
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Life stand still here.
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It is useless to read Greek in translation translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
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I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.
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I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.
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