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Virginia Woolf Inspirational Quotes (717)

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Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
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One must love everything.
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What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.
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I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long - some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies so hideously apparent to me. Out of my suffering I will do it. I will knock. I will enter.
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I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.
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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.
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I have had my vision.
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I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
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You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.
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As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.
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For love... has two faces one white, the other black two bodies one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.
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There is no doubt in my mind, that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice.
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How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.
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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
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His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life.
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to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.
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To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?
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My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
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The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them the night wrapped them nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness
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But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.
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