Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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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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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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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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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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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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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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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