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.
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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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
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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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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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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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Fear no more, says the heart.
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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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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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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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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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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 am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure.
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