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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFBe truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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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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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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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 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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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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