Virginia Woolf

England
25 Jan 1882 // 28 Mar 1941
Writer

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Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

A Room of One's Own
When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre.

Mrs. Dalloway
I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

The Waves
There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

The Common Reader
At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever.

Orlando
Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

Orlando
Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than any words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.
If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women...

A Room of One's Own
One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

Orlando
For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

The Common Reader
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