Virginia Woolf Quotes, Writing Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.

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Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

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old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.

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It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred.

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One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

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Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

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It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?

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But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

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Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

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To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.

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And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.

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It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.

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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.

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To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

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No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

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