Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWhy are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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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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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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