The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA light here required a shadow there.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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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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I will go down with my colours flying.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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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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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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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.
VIRGINIA WOOLF