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 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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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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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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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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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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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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