Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWriting is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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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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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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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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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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