Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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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 need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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