The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
VIRGINIA WOOLFLiterature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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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 am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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