I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
VIRGINIA WOOLFA self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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I 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.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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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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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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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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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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