Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
VIRGINIA WOOLFHumor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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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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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.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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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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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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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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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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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