Virginia Woolf Quotes, Quotes by Virginia Woolf

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There was another flourish; and then the trio dashed spontaneously into the triumphant swing of the waltz. It was as though the room were instantly flooded with water. After a moment's hesitation first one couple, then another, leapt into mid-stream, and went round and round in the eddies.	Virginia Woolf	The Voyage Out
What did she feel? Did she love him, or did she feel nothing at all for him or for any other man, being, as she had said that afternoon, free, like the wind or the sea?	Virginia Woolf	The Voyage Out
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.	Virginia Woolf	Night and Day
"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"	Virginia Woolf	Night and Day
Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.	Virginia Woolf	Jacob's Room
In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.	Virginia Woolf	Jacob's Room