I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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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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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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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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.
VIRGINIA WOOLF






