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“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
Virginia Woolf
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Night and Day
“Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.”
Virginia Woolf
,
Mrs Dalloway
“Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.”
Virginia Woolf
,
Mrs Dalloway
“So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.”
Virginia Woolf
,
To the Lighthouse
“I am rooted, but I flow.”
Virginia Woolf
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The Waves
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Virginia Woolf
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A Room of One's Own
“What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.”
Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway
“It might be possible, Septimus thought, looking at England from the train window, as they left Newhaven; it might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”
Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway
“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
Virginia Woolf
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Jacob's Room
“And she didn't know their names, but friends she knew they were, friends without names, songs without words, always the best.”
Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway
“The truth is that I am not one of those who find their satisfaction in one person, or in infinity. The private room bores me, also the sky. My being only glitters when all its facets are exposed to many people.”
Virginia Woolf
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The Waves
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
Virginia Woolf
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A Room of One's Own
“It is no use trying to sum people up.”
Virginia Woolf
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Jacob's Room
“human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.”
Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
Virginia Woolf
,
A Room of One's Own
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
Virginia Woolf
,
A Room of One's Own
“What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles,...”
Virginia Woolf
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To the Lighthouse
“Absorbing, mysterious, of infinite richness, this life.”
Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway
“Sir William said he never spoke of 'madness'; he called it not having a sense of proportion.”
Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway
“Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title”
Virginia Woolf
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Jacob's Room
“How useful an office one's friends perform when they recall us.”
Virginia Woolf
,
The Waves
“Fear no more, says the heart in the body; fear no more.”
Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway
“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink;”
Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway
“She would not say of any one in the world now that they were this or were that.”
Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway
“When I'm with artists I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful, and then I go out into the streets and the first child I meet with its poor, hungry,...”
Virginia Woolf
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The Voyage Out
“First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.”
Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway
“Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing-room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!”
Virginia Woolf
,
Mrs Dalloway
“now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.”
Virginia Woolf
,
Mrs Dalloway
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.”
Virginia Woolf
,
To the Lighthouse
“as long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking”
Virginia Woolf
,
Orlando
“it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge”
Virginia Woolf
,
To the Lighthouse
“one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.”
Virginia Woolf
,
To the Lighthouse
“nothing is so strange when one is in love . . . as the complete indifference of other people.”
Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway
“Anyhow there was no bitterness in her; none of that sense of moral virtue which is so repulsive in good women. She enjoyed practically everything.”
Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway
“About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she murmured, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.”
Virginia Woolf
,
To the Lighthouse
“As a cloud crosses the sun, silence falls on London; and falls on the mind.”
Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway
“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!”
Virginia Woolf
,
To the Lighthouse
“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.”
Virginia Woolf
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Jacob's Room
“I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married”
Virginia Woolf
,
Night and Day
“I worship you, but I loathe marriage, I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise, and the thought of you interfering in my work, hindering me; what would you answer?”
Virginia Woolf
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The Voyage Out
“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”
Virginia Woolf
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The Waves
“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
Virginia Woolf
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A Room of One's Own
“There was an emptiness about the heart of life; an attic room. Women must put off their rich apparel. At midday they must disrobe.”
Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway
“she thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.”
Virginia Woolf
,
Mrs Dalloway
“I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.”
Virginia Woolf
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The Waves
“Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins—of happiness and unhappiness.”
Virginia Woolf
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Jacob's Room
“Unfortunately, yes; the people we care for most are not good for us when we are ill.”
Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway
“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.”
Virginia Woolf
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Mrs Dalloway
“I do not believe in separation. We are not single.”
Virginia Woolf
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The Waves
“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river; to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.”
Virginia Woolf
,
Night and Day
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