Virginia Woolf Quotes, Notebook Quotes, Morning Quotes

A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch of the angry professor had been made in anger. Anger had snatched my pencil while I dreamt. But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom--all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning. Had anger, the black snake, been lurking among them? Yes, said the sketch, anger had.

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The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

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. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

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But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.

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Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

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... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

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What a comfort is friendship in this world.

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I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

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Fear no more, says the heart.

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... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.

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Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

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Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

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The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

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She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was Clarissa one remembered. Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was however; there she was.

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At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

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Life would split apart without letters.

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Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

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The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

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When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

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But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.

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