Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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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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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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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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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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