I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAs a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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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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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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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
VIRGINIA WOOLF