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Virginia Woolf Inspirational Quotes (717)

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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.
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Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.
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It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together
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. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge
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They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that one wanting this, another that the children were growing up she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.
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The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?
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The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.
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The poet is always our contemporary.
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Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.
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Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.
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She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not mind that) the safety and circumstance of married life, (she did not mind that) but life she heard going from her, and a lover.
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Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.
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Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
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No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.
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