53 Quotes by Virginia Woolf about life
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For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.
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I pass from hot to cold in an instant, without any reason; I am puzzled by parts of my character. And I haven’t said anything very much, or given you any notion of the terrific high waves, and the infernal deep gulfs, on which I mount and toss;
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If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory.
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First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
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She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged
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If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.
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Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?
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This fiddling and drifting and not impressing oneself upon anything – this always refraining and fingering and cutting things up into little jokes and facetiousness – that's what's so annihilating. Yet given little money, little looks, no special gift – what can one do? How could one battle? How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff?
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The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.
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