Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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Thinking is my fighting.
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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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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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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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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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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.
VIRGINIA WOOLF