The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
VIRGINIA WOOLFStyle is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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