Intimacy is a difficult art.
VIRGINIA WOOLFLiterature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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