When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
VIRGINIA WOOLFWhen I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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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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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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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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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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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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