Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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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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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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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 don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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