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 WOOLFBut beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.
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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 will go down with my colours flying.
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
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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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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 always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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I have lost friends, some by death, others by sheer inability to cross the street.
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