It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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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.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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