When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThere was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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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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Illness is a part of every human being’s experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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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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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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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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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.
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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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