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 WOOLFA veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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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 always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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