A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
VIRGINIA WOOLFHumor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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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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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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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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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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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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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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