{"author":"Virginia Woolf","author_id":"Virginia+Woolf","total_quotes":507,"quotes":[{"text":"If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["entertainment","life","socializing","society"],"id":820,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"},{"text":"This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["death","giving-up"],"id":3427,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"},{"text":"Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["humour","humorists"],"id":5414,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"},{"text":"What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. . . . When one so exposes it [integrity] and sees it come to life one exclaims in rapture, But this is what I have always felt and known and desired! And one boils over with excitement, and, shutting the book even with a kind of reverence as if it were something very precious, a stand-by to return to as long as one lives, one puts it back on the shelf.","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["love-of-books","reading"],"id":6156,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"},{"text":"And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["poem"],"id":6695,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"},{"text":"Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["friends","poetry","people "],"id":7960,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"},{"text":"The great cathedral space which was childhood.","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["great"],"id":8063,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"},{"text":"The questions that we have to ask and to answer about that procession during this moment of transition are so important that they may well change the lives of men and women forever. For we have to ask ourselves, here and now, do we wish to join that procession, or don't we? On what terms shall we join that procession? Above all, where is it leading us, the procession of educated men?...Let us never cease from thinking--what is this 'civilisation' in which we find ourselves? What are these ceremonies and why should we take part in them? What are these professions and why should we make money out of them? Where in short is it leading us, the procession of the sons of educated men?","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["education","feminism","women"],"id":10834,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"},{"text":"With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["marriage"],"id":11826,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"},{"text":"She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["dissatisfaction","happiness","loneliness","sadness","satisfaction"],"id":15716,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":507,"pages":51,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}