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.
VIRGINIA WOOLFConsolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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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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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
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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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The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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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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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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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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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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