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 WOOLFI feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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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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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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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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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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