Virginia Woolf Quotes, Acquiescence Quotes, Intensity Quotes

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

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Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.

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Life would split apart without letters.

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Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.

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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

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[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

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Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

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Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.

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By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

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I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?

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Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.

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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

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A light here required a shadow there.

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A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.

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All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.

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To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

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

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It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that.

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It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.

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