1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

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    People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

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    I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don’t budge though armies cross them.

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    For it is a perennial puzzle why no woman wrote a word of that extraordinary literature when every other man, it seemed, was capable of song or sonnet.

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    By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

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    I” is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.

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    Most of a modest woman’s life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

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    No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes.

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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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