It's my choice, to choose how to live my life. Virginia Woolf More Quotes by Virginia Woolf More Quotes From Virginia Woolf To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality. Virginia Woolf diseaseliteraturereality The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness Virginia Woolf seasleepnight One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin. Virginia Woolf subtlejugsrunning Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? Virginia Woolf catastropheillusionpraise Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet. Virginia Woolf tosspoetfall Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once. Virginia Woolf boards It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that. Virginia Woolf differencesheavenpeople Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth. Virginia Woolf businesstruthmean what she loved: life, London, this moment of june. Virginia Woolf londonjunemoments O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets! Virginia Woolf shakespeares-sonnetspagesflower London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets... To walk alone through London is the greatest rest. Virginia Woolf playgivingmoving Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then an· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once. Virginia Woolf runningphilosophyhands I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another. Virginia Woolf sickselfwant 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. Virginia Woolf differentmindmean Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes. Virginia Woolf occupationattitudemean But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors. Virginia Woolf selfdarkbeautiful Fear no more, says the heart. Virginia Woolf mrs-dallowayheart Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. Virginia Woolf substancegoes-onstories I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber. Virginia Woolf amberblockreading I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married Virginia Woolf marriedwantway
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