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«If ever a human being got his work expressed completely, it was Shakespeare. If ever a mind was incandescent, unimpeded. . ., it was Shakespeare's mind.»
«I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.»
«I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I write.»
«Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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army, barbarous, Discovery of, disgracefully, Empire, introduced, shaken, Shakespeare
«To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
helplessly, ignorantly, pardonable, platitude, powerfully, squander, squandered, squandering, squanders, squirt, squirted, squirting, squirts
«It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bubbles, creep, creep in, give in, impending, keep quiet, mentioning, pleasantly, quiets, reference, resigned, steadily
«What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
accidentally, another planet, chance upon, glimpse, lighting, light touch, motoring, scenes, sense of touch, tip, toe, touches, uncovered, uncovering, uncovers, unrecorded, voyager, voyagers
«It will be all over this day week - comfort - discomfort; and the zest and rush that no engagements, hours, habits give. Then we shall take them up again with more than the zest of traveling.»
«Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.»
«The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gas mask handy, it is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
airman, bags, circulate, circulated, circulates, circulating, come in handy, flows, free people, furious, handier, Handy, issues, mask, puncture, punctured, punctures, roof, spate, The Clouds, The Current, The Seeds, whirled, whirling, whirls
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