Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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