I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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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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Thinking is my fighting.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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