Virginia Woolf Quotes

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Virginia Woolf Quotes

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Virginia Woolf

Novelist

Creative

“I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.”

Mean Mind Different

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Virginia Woolf

Novelist

Philosophical

“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, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”

Simple Dark Illumination

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Lonely

“How remorseless life is!”

Life Is Remorseless

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Lonely

“And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.”

Literature Felt

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Lonely

“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.”

Fall Doors Feet

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Philosophical

“Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.”

People Book Imperfection

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Philosophical

“Words belong to each other.”

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Creative

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

Order Creativity

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Angry

“I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.”

Lying Women Weed

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Philosophical

“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.”

Mean Business Truth

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Creative

“The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.”

Real Simple

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Hopeful

“All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.”

Perfect Months

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