The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBe truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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.
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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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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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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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