To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
VIRGINIA WOOLFIn solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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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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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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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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