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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFMelancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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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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Love had a thousand shapes.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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