Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWe 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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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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Thinking is my fighting.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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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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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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I like to have space to spread my mind out in.
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I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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 am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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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.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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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.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
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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 need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give 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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.
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