The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
VIRGINIA WOOLFFor this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBut nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLFFor books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIt might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe depths of the sea are only water after all.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAnd all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
VIRGINIA WOOLFAnd yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFDistorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
VIRGINIA WOOLFTo make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWhen I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLFLock 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 WOOLFWomen have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI am rooted, but I flow.
VIRGINIA WOOLF