Virginia Woolf Quotes, Life Quotes

Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.

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As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.

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But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

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Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)

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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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As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

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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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The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain.

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The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

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Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

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To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

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

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

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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

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She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.

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Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word that he writes ... He is without doubt the prince of his profession.

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What a comfort is friendship in this world.

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For nothing was simply one thing.

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