Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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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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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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 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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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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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