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“Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“Fear no more, says the heart…”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”

Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own

Source: A Room of One's Own

“I prefer men to cauliflowers”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”

Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own

Source: A Room of One's Own

“But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.”

Virginia Woolf book The Waves

Source: The Waves

“Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“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 book Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando

“Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.”

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer

“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 book A Room of One's Own

Source: A Room of One's Own

“Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.”

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer

Source: The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two: 1920-1924

“Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.”

Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando

“I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”

Virginia Woolf book Jacob's Room

Source: Jacob's Room

“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”

Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography

Source: Orlando

“What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement?
It is Clarissa, he said.
For there she was.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.”

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer