Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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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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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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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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Love had a thousand shapes.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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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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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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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 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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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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