Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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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 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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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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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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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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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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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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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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