Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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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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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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