You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
VIRGINIA WOOLFTo make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
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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 can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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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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