The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIn solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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