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Quotes About Recognition

For most of history, anonymous was a woman.
~ Virginia Woolf
In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance.
~ Virginia Woolf
It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.
~ Virginia Woolf
But beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty - it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life - froze it. One forgot the little agitations; the flush, the pallor, some queer distortion, some light or shadow, which made the face unrecognisable for a moment and yet added quality one saw for ever after. It was simpler to smooth that all out under the cover of beauty.
~ Virginia Woolf
To seek a true feeling among the chaos of the unfeelings or half-feelings of life, to recognize it when found, and to accept the consequences of the discovery, draws lines upon the smoothest brow, while it quickens the light of the eyes; it is a pursuit which is alternately bewildering, debasing, and exalting, and as Katherine speedily found, her discoveries gave her equal cause for surprise, shame, and intense anxiety.
~ Virginia Woolf
Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.
~ Virginia Woolf
When I say to myself 'Bernard,' who comes?
~ Virginia Woolf
Sometimes she had it; sometimes not. She never knew why it came or why it went, or if she had it until she came into the room and then she knew instantly by the way some man looked at her
~ Virginia Woolf
Övgüler yerindeydi de, yerinde olmayan sinirlerimdi.
~ Virginia Woolf
Jane Austen) is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.
~ Virginia Woolf
Good-morning to you, Clarissa!
~ Virginia Woolf
Kim olduÄŸumu bilseydim umutsuzluÄŸa düÅŸerdim. 'Sen bu'sun veya ÅŸu'sun' diyen birisiyle tan??t?m ve hiçbir ÅŸey olmak istediÄŸimi hissettim.
~ Virginia Woolf
No one showed an instant's suspicion that Orlando was not the Orlando they had known. If any doubt there was in the human mind the action of the deer and the dogs would have been enough to dispel it, for the dumb creatures, as is well known, are far better judges both of identity and character than we are.
~ Virginia Woolf
Ma la bellezza non era tutto. La bellezza aveva questo guaio: veniva troppo immediatamente, veniva troppo completamente. Fermava la vita - la gelava. Ci si dimenticava le piccole agitazioni; l'arrossire, il pallore, qualche strana distorsione, qualche luce o ombra, che rendeva per un momento riconoscibile la faccia e tuttavia le dava una qualità che in seguito si vedeva per sempre.
~ Virginia Woolf
the chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of man)
~ Virginia Woolf
Beauty had this penalty—it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life—froze it. One forgot the little agitations; the flush, the pallor, some queer distortion, some light or shadow, which made the face unrecognisable for a moment and yet added a quality one saw for ever after. It was simpler to smooth that all out under the cover of beauty.
~ Virginia Woolf
Yazar, baÅŸkalar?n?n fikirlerine gösterdiÄŸi sayg? yüzünden kendi deÄŸerini deÄŸiÅŸtirmiÅŸti.
~ Virginia Woolf
she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.
~ Vladamir Nabokov
Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Your silence was effortless and windless, like the silence of clouds or plants. All silence is the recognition of a mystery. There was much about you that seemed mysterious. A
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Fame in our day is too common to be confused with the enduring glow around the deserving book.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
the name that the astute reader has guessed long ago
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar.…
~ Vladimir Nabokov