Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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Thinking is my fighting.
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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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