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“The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.”

Quote by Virginia Woolf

Work

This book is a profound exploration of human consciousness and the nature of reality, narrated through the eyes of six friends who grow up together and experience the complexities of life. more

Author

British modernist writer, known for her unique narrative techniques and profound portrayal of female experience. Her works include 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Mrs. Dalloway'. more

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“I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.”

Thinking Feels Writing Feelings Courses Difficult Wall Currents Odd Outsiders Best Work Disregard

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.”

Sometimes Asks Generations Repeats Peers Younger Generation Comical

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Source: Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

“The poet is always our contemporary.”

Poet Contemporary

Book:The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932

Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1932

“Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable sensations for a reader (since nothing is more dismal than to open the door and get no response).”

Knows Seems Reading Doors Air Reader Twenties Response Opening Sensations Rebel Flash Attacking Blinded Horde Swarms Reading Poetry No Response

Book:The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929 - 1932

Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929 - 1932

“more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.”

Power Dominion Will Power Loathe Imposition

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?”

Ifs Ends Christian Christianity Garden Letters Annoying Bells So Sad

Book:The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935

Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935

“I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!”

Self Lying Morning Bed Letters Profound Satisfaction Psychological Observation Remarkable Delighted Self-satisfaction

Book:The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935

Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935

“Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?”

People Want Sleep Wide Awake Make Out Wide Awake

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?”

Humans Stories Feelings Pleasure Strange Involved Accounts Ghost Our Love Craving Ghost Stories

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Source: Collected essays

“Theories then are dangerous things.”

Dangerous Theory Dangerous Things

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Source: Collected essays