Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
VIRGINIA WOOLFHumor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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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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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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 feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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