Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWomen and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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