For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
VIRGINIA WOOLFHumor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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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 will go down with my colours flying.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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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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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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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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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