No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBlame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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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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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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