All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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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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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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