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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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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 am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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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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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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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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