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Virginia Woolf Quotes
«Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
«If every a human being got his work expressed completelu, it was Shakespeare. If ever a mind was incandescent, unimpeded . . ., it was Shakespeare' s mind.»
«What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
«One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly.»
«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.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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abstractions, connected, immensity, inseparably, intensity, public figure, ruined, spiritual world, The Spiritual
«Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face -- as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.»
«Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.»
«For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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Harley, Harley Street, let alone, specialist, specialists, thirteen, Thirteen Years
«Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
add to, biographer, biographers, collection, respects, suggests