Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWhy are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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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 don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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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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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.
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