The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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The depths of the sea are only water after all.
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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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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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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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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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