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“for women live much more in the past… they attach themselves to places;”
Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway
Source: Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf book The Waves
Bernard, section IX
Source: The Waves (1931)
Context: Our friends, how seldom visited, how little known — it is true; and yet, when I meet an unknown person, and try to break off, here at this table, what I call “my life”, it is not one life that I look back upon; I am not one person; I am many people; I do not altogether know who I am — Jinny, Susan, Neville, Rhoda, or Louis; or how to distinguish my life from theirs.
“She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.”
Virginia Woolf book The Waves
Source: The Waves
“I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.”
Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse
Source: To the Lighthouse
“Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.”
Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own
Source: A Room of One's Own
“Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.”
Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own
Source: A Room of One's Own
“One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.”
Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography
Ch. 4
Source: Something, perhaps, we must believe in, and as Orlando, we have said, had no belief in the usual divinities she bestowed her credulity upon great men — yet with a distinction. Admirals, soldiers, statesmen, moved her not at all. But the very thought of a great writer stirred her to such a pitch of belief that she almost believed him to be invisible. Her instinct was a sound one. One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.