In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWhen I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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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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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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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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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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To 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.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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