Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
VIRGINIA WOOLFGrowing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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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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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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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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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 need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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