Virginia Woolf Quotes, Expression Quotes, Giving Quotes

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

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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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Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

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And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

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The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

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How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.

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Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

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How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?

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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

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Thoughts without words… Can that be?

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But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.

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War is not women's history.

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The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.

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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

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I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement.

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It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

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Use words that soak up life.

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Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and ivory, of dolphins and the juice of July flowers, of the milk of unicorns and panthers’ breath, of ropes of pearl, brains of peacocks and Cretan wine.

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It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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