I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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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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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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