You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBetter was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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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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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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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