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.
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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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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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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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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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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
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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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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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