Virginia Woolf Quotes, Believe Quotes, Goes On Quotes

Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?

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War is not women's history.

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I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

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Well, we must wait for the future to show.

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When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

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No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes

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There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

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If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

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Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

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What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

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There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.

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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

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Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.

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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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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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