The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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