Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIf you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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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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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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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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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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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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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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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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