And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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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 meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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