No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
VIRGINIA WOOLFSecond 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.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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Marvelous are the innocent.
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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
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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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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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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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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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