Virginia Woolf Quotes, Lying Quotes

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

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

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I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

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While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

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I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married

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

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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

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The world is crammed with delightful things

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I see through most people; I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.

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Life's bare as a bone.

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I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me.

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There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.

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You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

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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 sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

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Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

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Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

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