In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWomen and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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