I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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 have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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 feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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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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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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