The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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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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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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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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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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