One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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Love had a thousand shapes.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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