You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFLove had a thousand shapes.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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A light here required a shadow there.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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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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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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All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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