Virginia Woolf Quotes, Past Quotes

For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.

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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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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

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The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

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The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

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We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.

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I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

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Still, life had a way of adding day to day

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But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.

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Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.

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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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He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.

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Walden - all his books, indeed - are packed with subtle, conflicting, and very fruitful discoveries. They are not written to prove something in the end. They are written as the Indians turn down twigs to mark their path through the forest. He cuts his way through life as if no one had ever taken that road before, leaving these signs for those who come after, should they care to see which way he went.

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As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his command Dickens made his books blaze up, not by tightening the plot or sharpening the wit, but by throwing another handful of people upon the fire.

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The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.

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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.

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... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.

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Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.

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Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone.

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