Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
VIRGINIA WOOLFFor books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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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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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
VIRGINIA WOOLF