All Virginia Woolf Quotes
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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.
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I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
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