If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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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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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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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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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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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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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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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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For 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.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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