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Virginia Woolf

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So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes? Food was pleasant; the sun hot; and this killing oneself, how does one set about it, with a table knife, uglily, with floods of blood, - by sucking a gaspipe? He was too weak; he could scarcely raise his hand. Besides, now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.

knives hands blood

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

clothes opposites sex

I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

kind diaries writing

I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.

want facts thinking

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

charity kindness character

War is not women's history. by Virginia Woolf

War is not women's history.

empowering inspiring war

It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together

pain hurt mean

I prefer men to cauliflowers by Virginia Woolf

I prefer men to cauliflowers

cauliflower men

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

average men civilization

We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

reading book people

We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.

cutting sleep lying

Life stand still here. by Virginia Woolf

Life stand still here.

crafts stills

If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.

reading mean book

But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love. by Virginia Woolf

But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.

our-love hatred

There'll be oceans of talk and emotions without end. by Virginia Woolf

There'll be oceans of talk and emotions without end.

emotion ocean ends

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

medicine skins philosophy

For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.

spiritual house world

Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions ma... by Virginia Woolf

Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

plies three hate

I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than... by Virginia Woolf

I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.

writing feels

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

imagination two fiction