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Virginia Woolf — Portrait after a picture by George Charles Beresford / Adam Cuerden (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Virginia Woolf

English modernist writer

1882–1941

24 quotes, most often on Women, Life & Death and Writing.

Life is not a series of gig-lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
The Common Reader (1925), “Modern Fiction”
- Life & Death
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
Jacob’s Room (1922), Ch. 8
- Life & Death
What a lark! What a plunge!
Mrs Dalloway (1925), Part 1In context
- Happiness
- Life & Death
She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
Mrs Dalloway (1925), Part 1In context
- Life & Death
In people’s eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.
Mrs Dalloway (1925), Part 1In context
- Life & Death
- Love
Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.
Mrs Dalloway (1925), Part 10In context
- Life & Death

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