Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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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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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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 have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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