We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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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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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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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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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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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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