I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBlame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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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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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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