I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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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I will go down with my colours flying.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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