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 WOOLFThere is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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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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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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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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I will go down with my colours flying.
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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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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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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 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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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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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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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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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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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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