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Virginia Woolf Inspirational Quotes (717)

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Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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She was like a crinkled poppy with the desire to drink dry dust.
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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
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Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.
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Well, we must wait for the future to show.
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She began framing the words of her telegram into a senseless singsong so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favourable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace which she wore.
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The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
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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.
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It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.
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Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.
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The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
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Tragedies come in the hungry hours.
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It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things trees, streams, flowers felt they expressed one felt they became one felt they knew one, in a sense were one felt an irrational tenderness thus (she looked at that long steady light) as for oneself.
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No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely.
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After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.
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Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.
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It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.
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Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.
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The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
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It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship you. The light of truth beats upon us without shadow, and the light of truth is damnably unbecoming to us both.
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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
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Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?
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