The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf Quotes

“Of course, you can catch them and sort them and place them in alphabetical order in dictionaries. But words do not live in dictionaries; they live in the mind. If you want proof of this, consider how often in moments of emotion when we most need words we find none. Yet there is the dictionary; there at our disposal are some half-a-million words all in alphabetical order. But can we use them? No, because words do not live in dictionaries, they live in the mind. Look again at the dictionary.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf

“Dreary, calm November days when there is but one cloud, but that one covers the whole heaven. — Virginia Woolf, The Complete Works; “Geraldine and Jane,” (via woolfdaily)”
― Virginia Woolf, The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf