Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLFFor books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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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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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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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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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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