Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
VIRGINIA WOOLFMelancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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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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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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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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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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