You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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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A light here required a shadow there.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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