Virginia Woolf Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Memories Quotes

He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea.

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The truer the facts the better the fiction.

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Theories then are dangerous things.

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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

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Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

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War is not women's history.

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Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

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To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze.

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Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read; what I haven't read.

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The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

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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 piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

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To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

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For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

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Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

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His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life.

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I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.

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