Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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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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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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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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