You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWhy are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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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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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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 have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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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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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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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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In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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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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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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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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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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