To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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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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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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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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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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