To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThe depths of the sea are only water after all.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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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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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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They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.
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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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