Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
VIRGINIA WOOLFTo look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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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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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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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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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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