You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort. Virginia Woolf More Quotes by Virginia Woolf More Quotes From Virginia Woolf Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. Virginia Woolf others-opinions writing men Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise. Virginia Woolf criticism artist want The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. Virginia Woolf completeness truth-is women I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it. Virginia Woolf age found How can I express the darkness? Virginia Woolf chaos darkness With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life. Virginia Woolf married eye tragedy Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Virginia Woolf real-friends best-friend friendship When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing. Virginia Woolf existence darkness writing I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Virginia Woolf writing joy We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments. Virginia Woolf fragments reconcile seasons Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading. Virginia Woolf reading heaven thinking To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Virginia Woolf lasts peace looks For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself. Virginia Woolf communicate difficulty oneself Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world. Virginia Woolf fool genius world Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Virginia Woolf giving book people A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning. Virginia Woolf shade too-short life And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence. Virginia Woolf demand writing may All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence. Virginia Woolf atmosphere mind character literature is the record of our discontent. Virginia Woolf discontent records literature This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth. Virginia Woolf echoes self sea
