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Virginia Woolf Quotes about Giving

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The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

Reading, Giving, Advice

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2597, Delphi Classics

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

Life, Memories, Giving

I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

Giving, Solitude, Want

Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.38, Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence

Party, Giving, Silence

When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

Reading, People, Giving

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.

Book, People, Giving

Georg Brand, Virginia Woolf, Koizumi Yakumo, Hernández Felisberto (2017). “ON READING: Le plaisir de lire”, p.34, Pieffe Edizioni via PublishDrive

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.

Truth, Light, Giving

Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.95, Oxford University Press

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.

Heart, Giving, Glimpse

Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

With her foot on the threshold she waited a moment longer in a scene which was vanishing even as she looked, and then, as she moved and took Minta's arm and left the room, it changed, it shaped itself differently; it had become, she knew, giving one last look at it over her shoulder, already the past.

Past, Feet, Giving

Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.110, Virginia Woolf

London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets... To walk alone through London is the greatest rest.

Moving, Play, Giving

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

Expression, Giving, Sound

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Essence, Giving, Mind

"The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1918-1924".

A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

Wine, Giving, Water

Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.89, Lulu Press, Inc

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

Giving, Creative, Add

Virginia Woolf (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.232, OUP Oxford

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

Death, Men, Giving

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