A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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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 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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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