We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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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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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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