Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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