Virginia Woolf - SimplyNeo Quotes

"Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone."

~ Virginia Woolf

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"There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'"

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"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy."

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"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."

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"Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."

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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

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"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."

~ Virginia Woolf

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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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"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."

~ Virginia Woolf

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"As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking."

~ Virginia Woolf

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"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."

~ Virginia Woolf

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"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

~ Virginia Woolf

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

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"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

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"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

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"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

~ Virginia Woolf

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"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"

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" One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."

~ Virginia Woolf

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" When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument."

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" The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

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" Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

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" Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do."

~ Virginia Woolf

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" Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself."

~ Virginia Woolf

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" Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order."

~ Virginia Woolf

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" It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything."

~ Virginia Woolf

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" To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot."

~ Virginia Woolf

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Happiness Positive

" The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

~ Virginia Woolf

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" When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

~ Virginia Woolf

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