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 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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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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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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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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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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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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